My name’s Jeff

Real estate fraud has gone global—and it’s rising. When my parents started their title agency in the 80's, fraud was local: a fake check, a girlfriend posing as a wife, or someone trying to place a first mortgage with two lenders at once. “In my day, we didn’t have any internets." A fraudster had to show up at your closing table and lie to your face. Today they don’t need to be in your state—or your country. Why it’s worse now: • Internet: cheap, instant reach across email, SMS, portals—low cost, huge scale. • Crypto: fast, often irreversible money rails. • AI: deepfakes + automated social engineering. Capabilities are climbing fast, which makes each attacker more convincing—and increases how many can play. Criminals have new tools, so we need better ones. Attorneys and title companies have to protect the transaction and everyone in it. That’s why I’m proud of FNF’s partnership with CLEAR—bringing biometric identity verification into our inHere digital platform to verify the person behind the deal, not just the inbox. I’ve been a CLEAR customer since 2019. It’s fast, it works, and now it’s helping make closings safer. read more about our partnership: investor.fnf.com/news-releas…