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Use Forewarn to check a lead's phone number history before engaging. Numbers with no data are likely scams, while those with deep history get more leeway. A real prospect won't mind your broker getting involved; scammers will push back.

Use Forewarn to check a lead's phone number history before engaging. Numbers with no data are likely scams, while those with deep history get more leeway. A real prospect won't mind your broker getting involved; scammers will push back.
If you see a number in Forewarn with no history, that's often a scammer. But if they have a pretty deep history, then you may still want to try to serve them because you want to give a little grace and a little forgiveness, but keep your broker dialed in and call your broker and say, "I've got a person I'm thinking of working with, but here's their background on Forewarn. Will you go with me?" And a bad actor won't want you to bring your broker along, and a good person will say, "That's fine." And so you can just start to use some good common sense tools to help figure out how people operate.