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Property Buyer Wires $13,000 to Sophisticated Hacker After RI Realtor's Email Hacked

2015-10-07 01:21:25| Real Estate - Topix.net

"They get into the agents' email accounts, they monitor the emails and target real estate transactions that are just underway." Rhode Island real estate agents are urgently changing their email passwords after a sophisticated scammer hacked into a local Realtor's email account and tricked a buyer into wiring $13,000 to a bank in France.

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