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Robert Siciliano

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#1 Best Selling Author & Cyber Security Speaker | Architect of CSI Protection Cert | The Strategic Human Firewall™ | Expert in Cyber Social Identity
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The Real Estate Agent’s Playbook: Preventing Closing Wire Fraud and Protecting Your Clients

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By Robert Siciliano
| Finextra Verified
In modern real estate transactions, the real estate agent serves as the trusted guide between buyers, sellers, title companies, and lenders. However, as transaction workflows have shifted heavily into digital spaces, cybercriminals have targeted the closing process. Through Business Email Compromise (BEC), phishing, synthetic impersonation, and altered payment instructions, bad actors systematically exploit communication gaps to intercept closing funds, earnest money deposits, and seller proceeds.
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Preventing Closing Wire Fraud and Protecting Your Clients

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By Robert Siciliano
| Active Rain
In modern real estate transactions, the real estate agent serves as the trusted guide between buyers, sellers, title companies, and lenders. However, as transaction workflows have shifted heavily into digital spaces, cybercriminals have targeted the closing process. Through Business Email Compromise (BEC), phishing, synthetic impersonation, and altered payment instructions, bad actors systematically exploit communication gaps to intercept closing funds, earnest money deposits, and seller proceeds.
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How AI and deepfakes are rewriting the rules of real estate fraud

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By Robert Siciliano
| Inman News Verified
The real estate sector faces an unprecedented digital crisis. As of 2026, cybercrime has reached staggering heights, with Americans losing over $20 billion to digital theft annually and over 60 percent of title and escrow agencies reporting a surge in fraudulent activity. Modern fraudsters are sophisticated digital phantoms armed with artificial intelligence, deepfakes and voice cloning technology, structurally targeting an industry built on high-value, time-sensitive communications.
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