Scammers now using deepfakes to commit title fraud NBC Los Angeles [Video]

It didn’t take long for Lauren Albrecht to start seeing red flags.

“It’s women’s intuition,” Albrecht, the president of Florida Title and Trust said. “I just felt something was off.”

Once her title company got the contract for the sale of a vacant lot in Florida, Lauren got right to work to make sure the sale was legitimate.

“The first red flag that I received was a driver’s license from West Virginia,” she said. “When we did our research, I noticed that the property tax bills since 1978 had been sent to Nassau, Bahamas.”

Albrecht did some more research and asked for a proof of life video.

“And we started getting pushback with, you know, she’s hard of hearing,” Albrecht said she was told about the owner.

A few days later, she got an unexpected email, saying the seller was ready for a video call. During the call, she said …