00:02:21.000I mean, when you think about it, you feel pretty secure in the fact that you own your house.
00:02:29.800Unless somebody, you know, you hear about squatters, but that's a completely different thing.
00:02:34.360That's someone physically going into your house and taking it.
00:02:38.460This is a way that people can take your your very title to your house and then get all kinds of bogus credit off of it.0.73
00:02:52.120Take out mortgages on your house and you're you're kind of screwed.
00:02:58.060There's not much recourse for it unless you get in touch with the home title lock.
00:03:04.980Yeah, so for your audience, for anyone listening, you know, that doesn't really know what this is. So title fraud or title theft is essentially where scammers and thieves are taking advantage of this loophole in our legal system. They're going and filing some documents at the county recorder level that the county can't turn away as long as they're filled out properly.
00:03:26.520And essentially what they're doing is they're taking these documents that are meant for a purpose, right?
00:03:31.660They're generally a quick claim deed is what is used, even though there are a few different ways they can do it.
00:03:36.780They're filing this document, which generally is used to, you know, transfer ownership between family members or, you know, when there isn't money being changed in hands.
00:03:46.880It's essentially transferring your ownership.
00:03:48.360They're filing these documents. No one at the county office is required by law to authenticate notary stamps or, you know, make sure some of them will require ID.
00:03:58.900But that's very, very easy to fake. And once this is filed, essentially what happens is your ownership is in the scammers hands and then they can go out and take loans against the property or even sell your home behind your back in a lot of cases that we've seen.
00:04:13.720And it's very easy to commit and very, very hard to unwind.