by admin | Aug 1, 2022 | Blog
“Affinity Fraud” is the latest in a long line of terms used to describe various frauds, and many of the people who use the phrase in social media don’t actually know what it means. To understand affinity fraud, you first have to understand the definitions...
by admin | Jul 20, 2022 | Blog
Lately, several articles have floated around the internet and social media that create and perpetuate myths about home title theft and deed fraud, and the authors of these articles clearly had no personal knowledge on the subject. In this article, I will correct each...
by admin | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog
On June 16, 2022, Eddy Alexandre pleaded Not Guilty in the Manhattan federal court to charges of commodities fraud and wire fraud. The United States Attorney’s Office (“USAO”) alleges that, from September 2021 through May 2022, Mr. Alexandre operated a trading...
by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog
I want to tell you about various high-end technologies that we use in our products, and my goal is to keep it simple and easy for common people to understand the underlying technologies and the various concepts related to these technologies. So, I will not use jargon...
by admin | Nov 2, 2021 | Blog
Back in 2003, when I first started prosecuting real estate fraud cases as Los Angeles deputy district attorney, I was flabbergasted to learn that 37 states do NOT require notaries to keep a record book of their transactions. That number has dropped to 36 because as of...
by admin | May 29, 2021 | Blog
Because my company developed a smartphone app that uses Non-Fungible Token technology, I often get asked: What the heck are NFTs? The short answer is, a non-fungible token (or “NFT”) is a unique digital identification number (called a “hash”) that is used to verify...
by admin | May 6, 2021 | Blog
As a California lawyer, I have been fighting con artists and flimflam men (that’s my favorite synonym for fraudsters!) since 1998, and I can’t tell you how many forged signatures, fake notary seals and fabricated documents that I have seen. Thousands, for sure. What...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
Notaries Public, also known simply as notaries, are officials appointed by state governments to witness the signing of important, sometimes life-altering documents. These unbiased third parties serve in positions of integrity and responsibility, playing the important...
by admin | Sep 7, 2020 | Blog
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many businesses were forced to close their doors and move their operations online. Several federal and state governments moved to quickly enable fully electronic processes and keep the economy afloat. One such move was the...
by admin | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog
The need to trust complete strangers is an inescapable reality of 21st-Century life. The ability to trust the authenticity of a real estate deed or a service contract is vital to enable people to make deals and transact business with confidence. Indeed, trust is...
