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1   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Dec 6, 12:07pm  

What? A realtor sold a house?
2   Ceffer   2018 Dec 6, 12:27pm  

The DA's office considered it the perfect crime, so their lawyers started doing it themselves.
3   tovarichpeter   2018 Dec 6, 1:02pm  

The TV station apparently#embarrassed the DA into acting.
4   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2018 Dec 6, 1:06pm  

Email:

I'm a Nigerian/Kenyan prince. Please email me 20k to this bank account, thanks! <-- obvious scam, wont fall for this one.

I'm your realtor, please wire 20k to this bank account, thanks! <-- not obvious a scam that triggers some common sense phone call confirmation.
5   SunnyvaleCA   2018 Dec 6, 2:45pm  

FortWayneIndiana says
Email:

I'm a Nigerian/Kenyan prince. Please email me 20k to this bank account, thanks! <-- obvious scam, wont fall for this one.

I'm your realtor, please wire 20k to this bank account, thanks! <-- not obvious a scam that triggers some common sense phone call confirmation.

One current problem with email is that it can't be authenticated. I think there was a move afoot decades ago to digitally sign email, but I haven't seen that for many years. You'll notice, for example, that many emails you get ask you to go to the company's (realators) website and log on there to retrieve email.

So, actually, any financial request via email is always suspect.

"Digitally infiltrated" could mean merely that a different client of that same real-estate agent received an email from the real-estate agent and then made up their own email in the same style (same letterhead, if you will) and forged the return address when they sent it to the scam target.
6   Strategist   2018 Dec 6, 5:27pm  

I would think the real estate agent would still be liable as it was his e-mail that was hacked, enabling the scam to take place.

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