Wire Fraud Prevention: A Cybersecurity Playbook for Real Estate: Practical Prevention & Response Guide Estate Professionals 2026 Edition

The FBI counted $2.77 billion lost to business email compromise in 2024. Real estate closings are one of its favorite targets. The loss is usually a down payment or the full proceeds of a sale, wired to a criminal's account on the strength of one convincing email. It is gone in minutes and almost never comes back. Agents, brokers, and title professionals are targeted because they move large sums on tight deadlines, and AI voice cloning and deepfakes have made the impersonation harder to catch. This playbook gives you a clear, practical system to stop wire fraud before it happens and respond fast if it does. Inside: - How fraudsters intercept closing emails and impersonate agents, lenders, and title staff - The verification protocol to run on every wire transfer, every time - AI voice cloning and deepfake threats aimed at real estate, and how to catch them - The red flags your clients need before they wire anything - A step-by-step incident response plan: the first hour, the bank, the FBI IC3 report, and fund recovery >Who it is for: Real estate agents, brokers, title and escrow officers, and transaction coordinators who handle wire instructions and want to protect their clients. Most cybersecurity guides are written for IT people. This one is written for real estate. No technical background required; every checklist and response plan is ready to use today. Part of the CyberZ Playbooks series. 2026 edition.