by David Fleck | Nov 23, 2022 | Blog
I see this question often in social media, and the short answer is: There is no simple solution. Home title theft (aka deed fraud) has appeared more and more often over the last few years in news reports and in advertisements by title monitoring services like... 
by David Fleck | Sep 5, 2022 | Blog
Millions of American homeowners and homebuyers committed mortgage fraud in the early 2000s, and their crimes directly caused the Great Recession of 2007 and 2008. Professionals in every corner of the real estate industry knowingly aided and abetted this bad behavior,... 
by David Fleck | Aug 23, 2022 | Blog
One of the biggest battles fought by federal law enforcement is against healthcare fraud, and many people have no idea what this is. But, it sounds very scary, right? However, as I explain below, it’s not something you should lose sleep over…unless you are an... 
by David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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 David Fleck | 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... 
