For Real Estate and Title
The FBI logged $275 million in real estate fraud losses in 2025. Wire fraud on a closing often starts with one hijacked email.
A buyer gets spoofed closing instructions from an agent inbox that has been silently forwarded for weeks. The wire goes to the attacker. You find out when the title company calls. SentinelSMB watches for the hijack before the instructions go out.
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Real estate fraud losses reported to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2025, across 12,368 complaints
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Threats we catch
Three attacks aimed at real estate brokerages.
36 detection engines check your Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, AWS and Cloudflare accounts every five minutes. Critical threats surface instantly. Normal activity gets filed away.
Closing wire fraud
An attacker sits in a hijacked agent inbox for weeks, learns the closing timeline, then sends spoofed wire instructions to the buyer from a lookalike domain right before funding. The down payment is gone before anyone calls to check.
Agent inbox takeover
Silent forwarding rule added to an agent account during an open house rush. Every MLS alert, every offer, every client conversation copied to an external inbox until a competitor knows your book better than you do.
Buyer and seller PII exposure
Purchase agreements, loan applications, and tax returns all move through agent email. One compromised account exposes SSNs, DOBs, and bank accounts — triggering state breach notification in every state you do business.
Example alert for a made-up business.
Your blind spot
What a typical IT setup does not watch.
- Your agents work from everywhere — phones, laptops, open houses, title company offices — and a sign-in from a new Starbucks looks identical to one from an attacker.
- Closing day is when the money moves, and also when a hijacked inbox does the most damage — timing matters more in real estate than almost any other industry.
- Most MLS and CRM integrations use OAuth apps that nobody monitors. A malicious OAuth grant can read your entire mailbox without ever prompting for a password again.
- When a closing wire gets stolen, the brokerage is often named in the lawsuit whether or not your agent was at fault.
The screen is an example for a made-up business, not real customer data.
Compliance alignment
The rules and frameworks we line up to.
SentinelSMB provides the continuous-monitoring, access-control, and incident-response controls these frameworks require. Pro subscribers get the audit-ready evidence package.
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State real estate commissions
Fiduciary duty of care
Every state imposes a fiduciary duty on real estate licensees to protect client funds and information. Monitoring the inboxes that carry closing details is a practical way to show you took that duty seriously.
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State breach notification laws
Notify clients on unauthorized access
Every US state requires notification when personal information is accessed without authorization. SentinelSMB produces the audit trail and exact detection timestamps regulators require.
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E&O insurance renewals
Cyber endorsement requirements
Cyber and E&O applications ask how you protect client data and wire instructions. Pro subscribers get a quarterly evidence report built from real monitoring data to answer those questions.
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FTC Section 5
Reasonable security obligations
The FTC uses Section 5 of the FTC Act to hold brokerages accountable for reasonable security of consumer information. Watching the email accounts that hold closing data is one concrete way to show reasonable security.
Does this protect our buyers and sellers?
Directly, no — SentinelSMB monitors the brokerage's accounts. But most closing-wire fraud originates from a compromised brokerage or title inbox, not from the buyer's account. Locking down your side of the thread is the single highest-impact intervention.
Do we need this if the title company handles the wire?
Yes. The attacker typically impersonates a party already in the email thread — and that is usually the agent. You are the trusted sender whose voice the buyer recognizes. Protecting the agent mailbox is protecting the whole transaction.
How does this work with our transaction management software?
SentinelSMB monitors the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace account your transaction software logs into. Anything that touches your email (including CRMs, eSign tools, MLS integrations) is covered because the underlying cloud account is monitored.
What if an agent leaves and their inbox is still active?
SentinelSMB flags anomalous access to dormant accounts and abnormal sign-ins. Departed-agent account cleanup is a major risk in real estate — we surface the accounts you forgot to disable.
One closing. One wire. One compromised inbox is all it takes.
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