Property title theft happens when criminals record fake documents to claim ownership of your home and borrow against it. Leelanau County's free Fraud Notify service sends email alerts whenever a document is recorded in your name, letting you catch fraud before it ruins your finances.
There's another type of fraud out there and it can be hugely devastating. I want to show you how to protect yourself if you live in Leon County, how you can protect yourself from your property being stolen from you, in effect, and then borrowed against. And the next thing you know, you're in a whole lot of debt and you didn't know anything about it because identity thieves can actually take over the title to your property. So Leon County has some information here. I'll put a link to this site. In the comments. But if you go to this right here, it gives you how to protect yourself, um, against property fraud. So here are some good details. What is property fraud? Property fraud is a growing white-collar crime where thieves record documents against your property in an effort to establish ownership for financial gain. So they get the deed to your property, they take it over in your name,, and then they can borrow against it and really put you in financial ruin. It's easy to sign up for. I'm going to show you how later in the video. You can get automatic alerts anytime there's something going on with the deed of your property. So that's the next right here. Get— sign up for the free Notify, the Fraud Notify service that I'll show you just in a second. How does it work? Fraud Notify sends you an automated email alert anytime a document is recorded in our office. Using your name. You then decide if the recording is legitimate or fraudulent and take the necessary steps. Contacting law enforcement would be a good first step. Let's go back and take a look on how to sign up. So that's the next link down here. You go here and you have to type in your email addresses here. You can see I've already signed up for myself and Shannon. So what you do here is you choose whether you're an individual or a business. If you choose individual, you type in the first 3 letters of your first name, your full last name, and then that'll come over here and you need to just save your alerts and you're in the system. If it's a business, if you have the property in a limited liability company or something along that nature, then you just type in the full— but now I I'm signed up to receive an alert anytime my name is used in any kind of document record at the county level, and I'll get that free fraud alert. So there you go. Hope you enjoyed this video. Really encourage you to sign up because this can really be devastating financially if those identity thieves out there somehow get access to the deed to your property. Thanks a lot for tuning in.
