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FundingShield’s CEO, Ike Suri Provides Insights on Protecting Clients and Organizations from Wire Fraud

September 4, 2021 | by | Comments Off on FundingShield’s CEO, Ike Suri Provides Insights on Protecting Clients and Organizations from Wire Fraud

Protect Your Clients and Yourself From Wire Fraud Foil scammers before they steal someone’s closing funds By Ike Suri, FundingShield CEO Published in Scotsman Guide September 2021 Edition Homepage ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Wire Fraud is a growing problem for mortgage lenders of all sizes and their clients. This kind of fraud targets down payments and loan funds being sent into escrow. The scammer, who could be internal or external, uses a version of a phishing ploy ÔÇö often using email purporting to be from a legitimate company ÔÇö to infiltrate networks and watch transactions progress. At the right time, they send fraudulent
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Categories: Media.
Tags: #APIs, #formfree, #MortgageTech, #wirefraud, #wires, Bank, BEC, Business Email Compromise, Closing, Compliance, corelogic, Cyber, FBI, Fintech, Fraud, Freddie Mac, Mortgage, regtech, Risk, Security, and Title.

FundingShield’s Chairman & CEO, Ike Suri, interviewed by MortgageMedia’s Dave Matthews

October 4, 2019 | by | Comments Off on FundingShield’s Chairman & CEO, Ike Suri, interviewed by MortgageMedia’s Dave Matthews

CLICK ON IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW THE FULL INTERVIEW AND WRITE UP FROM MorgtgageMedia Loan Security: Don’t Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
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Categories: Media and Press.
Tags: BEC, Business Email Compromise, consumer, Cyber, downpayment, funding, home, loan, Media, Mortgage, Mortgagemedia, payment, Webcast, and Wire Fraud.

Fundingshield reports ~$75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure

October 16, 2018 | by | Comments Off on Fundingshield reports ~$75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure

Fundingshield reports an estimated $75 million per day in wire and closing fraud exposure. This would equate to exposure of ~$20 Billion in 2018.   This report leverages Fundingshield’s industry-leading proprietary software, analytics and transaction database of wire account information and transaction closing history. Furthermore, this projection is specific to lender wire and closing fraud attempts, and does not capture the much higher volume of wire fraud attempts against consumers in housing transactions. Wire and closing fraud victims overwhelmingly underreport losses because of reputational risk concerns.   As Fundingshield has shared previously, Cyber criminals use crawlers, also known as software
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Categories: News Letters and Press.
Tags: BEC, Business Email Compromise, Compliance, Crime, Cyber, FBI, Fintech, Fraud, lending, losses, Mortgage, Risk, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.

Fundingshield Newsalert: Mortgage wire fraud percetage increase with interest rates

February 21, 2018 | by | Comments Off on Fundingshield Newsalert: Mortgage wire fraud percetage increase with interest rates

Mortgage closing fraud continues to increase to and is reaching all-time highs while mortgage volumes are on a decline due to rising rates. From The Trenches Cybercriminals are using sophisticated phishing and email system penetration strategies to find a transactions in the mortgage market where they can execute an attempt to defraud one or more parties to the loan transaction. As the market volume has decreased, the percentage of transactions being attacked has spiked significantly. Fundingshield is actively assisting law firms, working with regulators and law enforcement to help non-clients in their attempts to recover stolen funds.   Recent Fundingshield
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Categories: News Letters and Press.
Tags: BEC, Business Email Compromise, costs, Cyber, Fraud, LOS, Mortgage, Real Estate, Security, wire, and Wire Fraud.