Arthur Pfizenmayer ｜ 08-24-25
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Summary
Former FBI Agent Arthur Feisenmeyer joins the show to talk about gambling and organized crime in general. He talks about his time in law enforcement, his early days working for the Chicago Field Office, and his time with the San Diego Field Office.
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a senior advisor right now to home title lock um good evening uh mr feisenmeyer how are you tonight
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i'm doing great thank you the last name really is fitzenmeyer a little fitzenmeyer oh that see
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it's easier than it looks it is that is a tough one uh you must have had to oh god imagine even
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as a young man having to spell that for people could you spell it you're just like oh god here
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You know, I could spell it before it was two, probably, because every time any adult said it around me, they had to spell it to whoever they were talking to.
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And my children, the same way, they could spell it before they got to school, simply because we were always spelling it all the time.
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And having that on your FBI credentials, look out, it's Agent Feisenmeyer.
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Yeah, yeah. Big, long book of creds. As far as the FBI goes, what was – were you organized crime early on?
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I worked organized crime labor racketeering most of my bureau career, specializing in electronic surveillance, wiretaps.
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Where – out of – what city primarily or anywhere?
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Uh, primarily, uh, about 11 or 12 years in Chicago and the remainder of my 26 years here
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Oh, now Chicago, I would think a lot of, uh, organized crime there.
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Uh, but San Diego, yeah, a lot of, a lot of, when I got out here, they asked, they asked
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me to come out here because, uh, tribal gaming was just starting to raise its, uh, profile
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and they knew that, you know, those guys whose last names they don't need to buy a bottle for
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were very interested, and by the time I got out here, they were, you know, nibbling around the
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edges, and so we had a lot of success out here, essentially stopping them at the state line,
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so to speak, because, you know, the system was so skewed to make it easy
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that, you know, it was easier for us to get the probable cause
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And so we had a lot of significant organized crime figures
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that we arrested and brought to trial out here in San Diego.
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I would, yeah. I'm not surprised in that gambling brings organized crime in. That seems to be kind of hand in hand. And you're working with Home Title Lock now. And this is, I had a meeting with your associates and I just didn't know this was happening.
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I laugh when people go, oh, I'm not going to do that online.
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Everything's presented to people as a convenience at first.
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And then you realize that it can also be very detrimental.
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But the average layman, they're not experts in digital crime.
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And so it's very difficult for them to protect themselves against things like credit card theft and pretty much everything could be stolen from you these days.
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Your house can literally be stolen from you, not like a squatter where they pull up with a tractor trailer and tow your house away.
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You can own it, have it, and then all of a sudden you don't own it anymore.
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You know, Anthony, a lot of people sit around completely unaware of the vulnerability.
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The one document out there for every homeowner that identifies the owner of record, the person who has the authority to do something with that property, that is a document that is actually on file in your county recorder's office, wherever the property is located.
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And lots of times, you know, like you said earlier, we're living in the digital age.
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They can probably get a copy of your title or your deed without ever leaving their grandmother's basement, quite frankly.
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And then with AI and with Photoshopping and all those things that are, you know, apps that are out there now, they can change the name of that document.
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They can file it for 30 or 40 bucks or whatever it takes to their local recorder's office.
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And they essentially have changed the ownership on that piece of property with that piece of paper from your name to their name.
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They don't just sit around and admire your house.
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They figure out how much equity you have and they start taking out real estate loans.
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Right. Using using the equity that you have as collateral for those loans.
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Because, you know, when you talk about stealing your house or house stealing, you would assume if you play it out in your head, it's like, well, what are they going to do?
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But you won't even know that this had happened until equity is drained out of your house.
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And there's really not much recourse that people have if this happened, right?
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I mean, before the ink is dry, it's in three different countries.
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And they probably did it with a false identity.
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So you're not going to have any idea what the hell's going on, quite frankly.
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You'll be, you know, kind of high and dry on the whole deal because it's all happened without your knowledge.
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And until the lender shows up at your front door and says to you, you haven't paid on this mortgage.
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And so I'm going to go to court and get a judge to authorize me to sell your house so I can get my money back.
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They want the money back that they loan to the bad guys because it's gone.
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They took the equity out of your house, and now you're screwed.
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And they're going to get a court to authorize them to sell it.
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and it's an ugly set of circumstances you don't want to get into if you don't have to
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you know and i have what i call our agent arts pop quiz for homeowners and it's three questions one
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um do you know what your title looks like two when was the last time you saw your title and
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three do you know where your title is right now you know and they're going to look at you with
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You know, the glassy-eyed, you stare and say, I don't know.
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Maybe when I bought the house 12 years ago, I saw the title.
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They're completely lack of knowledge about their most important asset.
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And they can go out and get that information so easily and change the name
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and essentially take ownership of your house now you know they you want to you want to think well
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uh i'm not going to worry about it's not going to happen to me well i've got some some bad news for
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you if it does it's a legal financial and emotional nightmare that'll take you years to straighten oh
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yeah even if it does get straightened out at some point it's taken years and cost you a lot of money
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to try to remedy this, and your credit's probably destroyed.
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I've been with the company almost nine years now.
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Right after I joined, I got a call from a gentleman on the West Coast, actually,
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and he said, look, I don't know if you can help me or not,
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but somebody stole all the equity out of my house,
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And I said, well, I can't do much for you, quite frankly,
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because the house, you know, the cow's out of the barn,
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because you're going to have to take this to court
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to prove that you didn't execute that loan yeah he called me back he was nice enough to call me
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back a couple years later you know he said i just wanted to let you know that the court awarded the
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house to us we got our house back in our name he said that's the good news the bad news didn't cost
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me so much in legal fees i had to sell the house to pay the attorney yeah a lot of people crazy
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it's like i said man a lot of people don't know that this is a thing and uh you know what what
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can people do there arthur uh let everyone know what uh home title lock is about and how how it
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differs from what they can do coming to your door yeah what they can do so they don't have to worry
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about the answer to those three questions and an agent arts pop quiz is sign up and subscribe to
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home title lock.com this company has been in business for since uh probably 2014 2050 i mean
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we know what we do or we do it better than anybody else our software we built it doesn't do anything
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but watch your title for you 24 7 and if something disturbs your title our software notifies you
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that there's been a disturbance on your title and if it's available they'll send you a copy
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of the document that caused that disturbance and then it'll tell you to call home title lock
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right away and if you don't recognize it then our restoration we have we have the best customer
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usa customer service the best ever these people are all class acts every one of them and i know
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quite frankly because i did the backgrounds on every one of them and these are great people
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and they know what to do to get you through this before somebody knocks on your door and says we're
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going to sell your house the idea really is don't sit around at night thinking well it won't happen
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to me what you can do is feel comfortable at night and not worry about it because home title lock
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will take care of it for you 24 7 yeah there's just too much going on these days especially
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digitally to uh pay attention to everything that can possibly happen to you by yourself so uh all
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Right. How can people get this Home Title Lock?
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Rather than play roulette with their home equity, they should go to HomeTitleLock.com and sign up, register.
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It's very simple. And you go to the website and it'll walk you through it.
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And before you go to bed tonight, you'll not have to worry about somebody stealing your house while you're asleep.
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And every day thereafter, we will watch it for you.
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As I tell people, if you would skip one of your designer drive-thru coffees once a week,
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you would have enough money at the end of the year to pay for all of a year's subscription
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and probably have enough left over for a tank or two of gasoline,
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except on the West Coast, we would get a half a tank out here.
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And, you know, for a Fed, you seem like a pretty nice guy.
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