Deed Theft is Exploding. Deedsafe™ Destroys it.

 

THE EASIEST MAJOR ASSET TO STEAL
IS EQUITY IN U.S. REAL ESTATE

Deed theft is the fastest growing organized crime, with losses likely to hit $21 billion in 2026.  

If you've got equity, these clowns are coming for you with a vengeance. Be ready.

Deed theft is the act of stealing equity in real estate by illegally transferring the title of a property or the equity therein, or by illegally commandeering the control of the earning capacity of the property.

The most common method of deed theft is the simplest.  Thieves simply forge a new grant deed or quit claim deed on your property, forging your signature and a notarization of it, and record the fake deed at the county recorder or registrar of deeds of jurisdiction.  It's fast, easy, and once filed, a nightmare to reverse.



Deed theft has almost always been mistaken for a civil matter when reported. Today's deed thieves are brazen, confident, often highly educated, organized international crime syndicates.  They will steal your deed and then brazenly oppose your allegations, claiming you sold the property to them, or causing question enough by many other means so that law enforcement deems the fight a civil matter.  Then you have to sue.  

But in the mean time, the deed thief may very well have you thrown out of the property, co-opting law enforcement to physically handle the task. Then they sell or borrow against it, and disappear.  Sound outrageous?  It happens all the time.  Some deed thieves have attacked the owners in other ways too, such as having the property owner declared incompetent by a judge who is in on the scam.  Don't believe it?  Go investigate what happed to the $5 million home that was used in the Cosby Show TV series. 

The only remedy offered by authorities, government and the private sector is various kinds of title monitoring services.  None of these will stop the act before recordation of the fake deed, however.  And recordation is when the nightmare begins.  The only true fix is prevention.  Prevention is possible, and affordable, but it takes serious strategy and ability, not just monitoring.

Deedsafe™ by Motion Granted is something different, and far more effective. 

Deedsafe™ obliterates deed thieves.  In fact, if anything it may be overkill.  This product, which I created 30 years ago, protects you with four major steps.

1.  Deedsafe™ disappears your equity, making it invisible to the databases used by these parasites.  The thieves see only the property with no equity.  Your equity remains, visible down to the penny, but visible only to you.  Thus you are seldom considered for targeting.
2.  Deedsafe™ separates your equity from your deed, placing the equity also under your sole control, even if your deed is transferred.  Thieves recording a false deed find themselves owning you more than the equity, plus interest.  Deedsafe™ gives you the ability to foreclose on them, in most states without ever going to court, and in many states obtain judgement on them for interest above the value of the property. 
3.  Deedsafe™ insures your equity position with a major national insurer.  A theft on you becomes a theft on them.  I liken it to having a rich, politically connected, 800 lbs. gorilla in your corner.
4.  Deedsafe™ exposes deed thieves for all to see, and can even assist with restoration of your credit if damaged by these cretins.

Deedsafe™ does all this and lasts as long as you want it, all at a one-time cost of probably less than one year's property insurance, and financing is offered too.  

All this without preventing you from selling, refinancing, or passing the property on to legitimate heirs - in fact, it enhances these eventualities.  Deedsafe™ protections can even be passed on to your buyers, heirs or other assignees, insuring their positions as well. 

 

Deedsafe™ is world-class asset protection, made affordable and approachable for even the smallest real estate assets.  It works like a charm, but only in advance.  If you wait until they hit you, you're too late.

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ID Theft: Corporate ID Theft, Case 1

If you think it's easy to steal some one's ID, you'll be really surprised how simple it is to steal the identity of a corporation. For this one, I'll bring in some personal experience.

One day, while in Washington, D.C. for an embassy party, I got a call from an FBI agent who said he needed some information on a borrower client of mine, from a few years earlier. The client had caused someone to wire my firm "some money", and he was investigating where it gone from there. I asked him to fax me his subpoena for my record, and to please give me the names by phone so I could begin the investigation.

The names associated did not sound familiar. "How much money was wired to us?" I asked.

"Nine hundred thousand dollars." His reply made no sense. I knew I would remember clients of such size. I told him I was suspicious.

The agent was quite seasoned, and knew enough to confirm the bank name bank account number of my operating account. I provided this, and he realized the account number had not matched. It was however, the a different branch of the same bank, in the same city as my branch. My company name and address had been used. I later double checked, to find I had no record of ever having received any such wire, and had no involvement with the named individuals.

So what happened?

Quite simply, someone had obtained a copy of the address articles of incorporation of my firm from public records, faked a list of officers, opened a bank account in the company name, pretended to be the company in offering like services, and got a client to wire them $900,000. for nothing. My corporate identity had been assumed. Their client (the mark) never saw the benefit of his $900,000. He thought he had been talking to the company, was made who-knows-what promises, wired money to the sammer when he thought he was wiring it to the real company, the rest is history.

Bank Fraud Scam: The "Who's Who"

This US-only, 3-victim scam is designed to allow the perpetrator to spend small amounts of money from one victim's checking account, while convincing him or her that it was done by another victim. The money is paid to a third victim who has to refund it.

Imagine you get a phone call from a vendor telling you your check bounced, and demanding payment. Only you never heard of the vendor. Or perhaps you see some small checks clearing your bank account that you didn't write. You might be a vendor who gets checks from a local company which don't clear, and the vendor seems to be playing dumb to the fact.

All of these could be victims of this scam.

1. Scammer obtains banking ID numbers of an existing valid account of Victim 1. This is usually done just by seeing the check. Any cashier can easily obtain the data, especially if they are using a mobile phone camera. The information needed is only the account number and routing number at the bottom of the check. This information is of course also available to anyone to whom you write a check.
2. The scammer obtains the name and address of a valid company, which will become Victim 2. This can be as easy as going to the phone book or the internet. Just about any company will do.
3. Scammer prints checks (easily done on any computer, no special ink necessary) which shows the routing and bank numbers of Victim 1 at the bottom of the check, and the company name and information of victim 2 at the top left of the check.
4. Scammer then goes pays for services or goods from just about any retailer (victim 3) using the checks he has created. He signs his own name, or the name of any fake or stolen ID he has. The amounts of each check are usually under $100.
5. The check confirms, because the numbers read by the cash register at the bottom are valid, and the balance is sufficient. The ID matches perfectly and signatures are spot-on. The name of the account is usually a corporation, and no retailer has a way of verifying if the signer is a signatory to accounts for the corporation.
6. The check clears the account of Victim 1, who may or may not notice the small amount missing. If Victim 1 catches the bogus check, they notify the bank, which then closes the account and returns the check to the retailer or payee's bank.
7. Victim 3, The retailer or payee, then gets notice that the check is returned. Naturally they contact the Victim 2, the company who's name was used at the top of the check. The company denies all knowledge. If it is a small company, Victim 1 probably won't believe them, and will pursue them with bad check laws, only to find out they never wrote the check.
8. Unkown perpetrator gets away with paying bills with other's names, addresses, bank accounts, etc.

How to Protect Yourself

1. Write checks as seldom as you possibly can.
2. Don't send checks bearing a signature to vendors you don't know. Use a credit card or online bill pay service instead.
3. As soon as you hear something that sounds like any of the above, file a police report to protect yourself from further action done in your name.