I would bet you a million dollars if this happened to a legislator the laws would change so fast it would make your head spin.

FL Statutes require the Clerk of the County Court to inspect the Deed before filing. They need to add another step informing the owner that a Deed has been filed on the property.

The county clerk should have to send a letter to the seller that the property has been sold for their records.

Why does the legal system allow a criminal ten minutes to acquire a deed with fraud, but it takes years for the actual owner to clear the deed? Something is terribly wrong with our legal system. It should take as little time to remove the fraudster from the deed as it did to add the fraudster. The court industrial complex is just as much to blame for this problem as the criminals. Perhaps the real owners should go to the county clerk's office and refile their deed with the criminal's signature. Oh, right, that would also be considered fraud and the poor little criminal would be entitled to justice at the expense of the real victim. We seriously need to hold bureaucracies responsible for allowing these fraudulent transactions.

Why can't you just file like the crooks did, you should be to get it back! Where are the court's common sense !?

How can fraud be considered legal ownership???

What if a scammer transfers the deed of the state capitol? The clerk just records it?!

If this happened to me... someone is paying

Wow, that is terrifying to hear how easy it is to steal another piece of property by simply filing some forged paperwork. What a nightmare for the rightful owners... who then have to fight for years to get back what is rightfully theirs.

Excellent work! I cannot believe there is not already an FBI division dedicated to take these criminals down. And there should be more resources to victims, how can afford those legal fees?

So if we go to a store to return something without a receipt we are required to provide ID, but not to file a deed transfer at county courthouse? How to stop this nonsense ---- Since there has been considerable growth in new notary commissions and those seeking to get into notary business - some legitimate but others likely not so -- and then there are deed transfers conducted online/remote - talk about leaving the hen house door wide open for the crazy foxes !!!! THIS is what every county needs to do: have thoroughly vetted, designated county notaries who would be the only type of notary authorized to notarize a special document --- a freeze of title, like one can freeze their credit report, so this would mitigate the problem of notaries "on the take" as the notary issue would dramatically reduce this type of fraud. Counties need to vet and have this special designated notary pool, and also there needs to be extra layers of scrutiny for online deed notarizations. The title freeze would only apply to deed transfers and not lien or encumbrances from creditors.

Why didn't Andrew Howard buy title insurance? Buying owner's title insurance is a standard part of due diligence before purchasing a home and it's designed to prevent this exact problem.

I suspect the county clerks office or a judge is taking bribes or getting paid off.

They need to fix this asap 😤

Isn't there some way that you check any sort of ID to at least verify the identities??

What they should do is have you bring ID in and verify it is you and that you did it before the paperwork is filed and finalized They should also flat out reject any suspicious paperwork or even paperwork for which no one has shown up with their ID to verify it was them. Even send out a notice that the paperwork will be destroyed (shredded or incinerated) if they fail to comply with the ID requirement. Also send someone to the property in question looking for the person whos name is on the paperwork to make sure that they are the one who filed it and that it is your property.

Prison!!!!!

So, a fraudster shows up in the county clerk's office with fake deed papers, and law enforcement and the justice system is supposed to believe the false papers instead of the true owner's deed which has been on file for years, and was never sold for actual money equal to the actual value of the property. One would think that the relevant court would require the new "owner" to prove that they bought the property rather than faking papers. One would also think that the clerk's office would require proof of sale and the present owner to show up with proof of sale for actual value of the property.

Thank you for exposing these thieves. 🙏

Prisoners should not have access to technology or allowed to mail anything. Where is the punishment. Maybe if it's automatic life sentences it will deter some. They shouldn't get out on bail either. Probably using stolen money to bail themselves out.

How hard would a notice be to go out to the current owner of recorder address whenever a change of address, title, or lean is filed on a property to confirm the change.

A whole ghetto mess, I can’t with people .

Texas demands proof of ID for mail in ballots, but not for fillings at county clerk's offices??? 😂😂 No wonder why our side is losing!

Why isn't there a verification process?

That man should be in “Jail” waiting trail. Like the young Latino guy or the African-American male.

What a scammer.

This is happening to me right now ! I am so appalled that this has happened to me. Furthermore, I am in bankruptcy for said property to preserve ownership and this still happened. I can assure you that I will stop at NOTHING to ensure my property is put back into my name.

Life in prison for all these thieves

This can be stop. Have picture, signature and fingerprint on the real homeowner on file, then notify the owner by mail of the quick claim deed on their property. Have the fraudsters show and record their ID and signature to the recorders office. The fraudulent quick claim deed stay on file temporarily until the real homeowner come down to the recorders office to verify this quick claim is true or false. The verification checks would be your signature, fingerprint, death certificate, old check stubs etc. I bet if someone did this to the White House, It would get stopped in its tracks. I pray that all states do some kind of deed lock.

You know what stops this sort of thing? Make the perps pay the ultimate price when they show up at YOUR home trespassing using a FAKE deed! A FAKE deed is NOT “ownership” of a property. They are trespassing and a threat. Defend your property and family!

The buyer and the seller are on it fraudulently. $10? Give them both heavy punishment.

I bought two properties in Texas. Whether the mortgage company required it or not; I would never have closed without Title Insurance. This would have indemnified me against any financial loss caused thru fraudulent deed or defective title. The title company is the de facto policeman of the grantor/grantee index in the court house. Just crazy not to pay for their services. can't understand why WFAA didn't bring this up?

The fact that many of these fraud cases arise from inside of prisons is testament to the need to isolate prisoners and prevent them from communicating with the outside world. It is also testament to the stupidity of a clerk's office which does not even perform a cursory check to make sure that the deed transfer is real. At the very least, any time a new deed is created for a property, the old deed should be consulted for its owner, the owner contacted, and the sale of the property confirmed. Even better, both parties should be required to be present in the clerk's office with proof of their status as the owner who is selling and the buyer who is buying.

There is a need for a national registry for deeds, warranty deeds, and wills. This would have a software program scan and check for forged signatures and documents. No more local county recorder offices are needed. It has gotten so bad that local county recorders' offices are not getting the training necessary to legitimately spot fraud and forgery. The scanned documents, once they pass the system, are freely recorded into the registry and the public can check up on their residences anytime on the website.

Dirty Deeds....done dirt cheap....... :)

WOW that is a license to steal. 🤔🤨🧐😲 Justice matters.⚖️

If this wasn't comical I wouldn't laugh, large property $10 at that rate no one should be homeless.

So can they just go and refile an new deed warranty reverting the property back?

Notaries have to be held accountable & prosecuted when found to be a co-conspirator of the crime.

The answer is soooo easy!!! Force the Title company to hand over the warranty deed to the buyer to accept and acknowledge the deed at closing. You must ask why that doesn’t happen???? Because the lenders , title companies are in on the scam!!! If the e buyer leaves the deed blank without accepting and acknowledging , it’s unclaimed property. The banks, lenders and title companies ARE THE BLAME!!!! They are the criminals !!!

Why didnt Andrew Howard buy title insurance?

2 step authentication is the best!! i think a photo ID and a phone call to the home-owner at the time of filing would be sufficient enough

So are they faking the notary? Anytime I’ve used a notary. I have to show them my drivers license and prove I’m the person signing it..

Uh, why not just do the crime right back at them. File for the deed saying you own it

I called the police dept to file as someone was using my name & ss for lights, gas, & cable. They were squatting a home that someone had let go to foreclosure. i live out of state. the police called me and said nothing they can do...have to prove i'm not paying the bills... i mean it's crazy.

Some guy I don’t know LOL

Gee we don't have the resources to check a church bring sold fir $10. Someone tell me where a church can be bought for $10.

Shame people are dead for a deed. Geez. That’s the problem. They only do what the the law requires. That statement speaks volumes. So now a middleman has to create something to protect from theft.

laws need to change.there should never be a transfer without seeing the people in person and i.d them. print them too just incase and noterized in person also. problem is a lot of these scams are ran by an employee who knows what the offices limitations are and what has to be done for that deed to transfer. and stealing someones property needs to be a felony. our aws in thsi country are geared to cater to ciminals and not the honest person.

That's auful. He stealing in the name of the Lord and he has the audacity to be a preacher.

No most of the people are not honest

Who else is afraid to buy property now?

From the jail, they should be monitored and the calls and recording them each time. Something like this occurs so that it goes in. Front of a supreme court judge about The judge should penalize them for not listening in on the calls of their inmates. They're helping the perpetrator commit these crimes by not Auditing their calls. It is important that the judge knows that they're not doing this kind of stuff behind bars. It is not the human rights place to stop it. It is the place of the serious iota's who has not stopped. Letting them make criminal calls from jail. Shame on all of you for the wrong doings that you help. These individuals commit these crimes from behind bars by not auditing the calls. They're supposed to be taped at all times so that they don't make more mistakes. But if you allow them to make a mistake, you have only passed judgment of consequences back on yourselves in the government for allowing this to happen.

Nope it's time for the deputy Marshals to step in and do the full investigation you should have done before the property deeds were seeing that's invasion of privacy in the HIPAA laws that were broken by all who did not have respect for others the owner should have been contacted and you all did not do that you basically help the perpetrators on property which makes you a person who helps perpetrators or is a perpetrator of the same background con games

bottom feeder

This is why God is coming through texas with all of those tornadoes. Dont cry about a house that you stole.

I hope that they can ammend deed fraudsters the electric chair. Mortgages are expensive enough let alone legal fees on a fraudulent transaction! Dont give any solace to the fraud companies either!

ID should be mandatory by law with SS