IS there a way for a home owner to check or be alerted?
Unfortunately, no. Unlike credit cards and other financial instruments, the credit alerts and monitoring don't apply to real estate, and there is no such organization that monitors them for consumers.
Due to COVID everything is now done electronically and remotely. Signatures are electronic, and all it takes a piece of fake ID and information that is readily available to scammers to steal your identity and your house.
Anyone can buy a house over the Internet nowadays, it's scary.
Believe it orn ot, most your personal information is alreadly leaked and available to scammers.
Evertytime you filled out a form on the internet, over hundreds of websites, that information was eventually compromised, and leaked. So your full name, date of birth, address, SIN number, banks info, credit card info, passwords, etc. can be used to create fake ID and steal your identity.
