Hackers targeting home buyers, scamming people out of thousands
WGN Investigates Hackers are targeting real estate wire transfers to scam people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and its now one of the fastest growing internet scams in the world. Karen Rhoades was about to close on the purchase of an Indiana farm when she received an e-mail saying that wire instructions had changed. Hackers intercepted her title company’s e-mail. She didn’t realize what was done until she was sitting at the closing table and had already wired…
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