Live Demo: Property Profiles   

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

10:00am PST/1:00pm EST

This class will walk you through how to pull property profiles and sales comparables.

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PHISHING

Phishing emails are more frequent and creative than ever, so it’s important that we stay diligent when reviewing and monitoring our inboxes. Our team recently completed a webinar dedicated to educating participants about privacy and security. Below are some tips we found most helpful when identifying a phishing email.

• Not personalized. For example: The introduction will read “Dear Customer”
• Poor grammar, overuse of capitalization and spelling errors.
• From a nondescript or incorrect email address.
• Reply-To address is different than sender’s address.
• Asks for account information.
• Contains threats and commands,
• No direct contact information given.
• Before clicking a link, hover over it to confirm that you are being directed to the site displayed.

WIRE FRAUD

In this day and age wire fraud is one area that places a company at higher risk. The people attempting to intercept funds are becoming more bold in their efforts and have an understanding of our industry.

We know our teams are on the front lines to act as the eyes, ears and voice that has proven time and time again to be worthwhile.

Our client presented us with an updated payoff from the existing lender. They had received an email from the borrower that the wiring instructions had been updated. Nicole Snyder, Lead Settlement Officer, recognized that this was out of the ordinary. She promptly called the client to confirm wire instructions and then found that the new payoff had in fact been altered to change the account number along with a few minor additions/deletions of wording of the wire portion. Thanks to her diligence, Nicole prevented a potential loss of $153,000.

Our team is always available to verify wiring instructions to ensure all available avenues are confirmed before proceeding.

Join us for our new class dedicated to enhancing the security of your transaction. We have compiled a comprehensive overview of some of the most common ways you can detect and prevent fraud. Allow us to share with you ways to stay alert to fraud so you can protect yourselves, your clients and increase overall awareness of the dangers of fraud.

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Our offices will be closed on the following days.

President’s Day – February 15th

Memorial Day – May 31st

Independence Day – July 5th

Labor Day – September 6th

Thanksgiving Day – November 25th

Day After Thanksgiving – November 26th

Christmas – December 24th

Effective 2/1/2021 ARS will no longer accept orders for the state of Iowa. The state of Iowa Legislature created Iowa Title Guaranty to provide guarantees of all real property titles, facilitate mortgage lenders’ participation in the secondary market and help assure the integrity of the land title system. This link will provide you the contact information to open the order and also who would facilitate the closings/settlement.

If you have any questions please contact our Solutions department, Solutions@AllegiantReverse.com.