How To Avoid Real Estate Cyber Scams

How to avoid real estate cyber scams. With the current Coronavirus Pandemic realtors are working remotely from home more now than ever before. Buyers and sellers are able to sign listing contracts and buyer offer documents from their smart phone or computer without ever meeting the realtor in person. Cyber hackers are hoping to take advantage of this new digital business model to line their pockets. In this video I will share some basic DYI tips on how to protect your computer and digital transactions from being hacked. ✔Free Home Buyers or Sellers Guide: http://freeebook1.toplirealtor.com/buyer/sellerguide

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you can avoid real estate cyber scams that's the topic of my next video how

you can avoid real estate cyber scams that's the topic of today's video hello

everybody my name is Mark Schreier and I'm a licensed sales associate with

century 21 American homes real estate right here on Long Island New York we

are in week 3 or 4 of the lockdown every day seems to be blending together most

people are working from home that are in essential services and Realtors are

doing most of their transactions virtually I have the ability to sell a

house with East signatures for both buyers and sellers online and with that

opens a palapa a lot of opportunity for scammers trying to hack into the real

estate process I'm going to share with you four tips that you can use today to

try to safeguard yourself from these particular hacks tip number one

definitely only use secured email if you're not sure what secure email is

there should be an HTTPS in the URL address up on the top the S stands for

secure and/or a padlock up on the top left of your screen when you're looking

at it that stands for secured even if the website is secure and this is tip

number 2 or the email is secured never send secure information about yourself

through an email what do I mean by that don't send your social security numbers

don't send passwords to sensitive websites don't send bank account or

routing numbers even if it is a secured site the next thing that you need to

know or tip number 3 don't open email some people you don't know who they are

a lot of us are getting tons of emails from people promising us the world don't

open them send them right to your spam folder if it's an email from a friend or

relative but it's something looks unusual about and call them text them

ask them confirm if they sent the email if they did great if they didn't send it

on to your spam folder and tip number 4 don't use unsecured Wi-Fi hopefully in a

couple of weeks we'll be back to business almost as usual going into

coffee shops and things of that nature naturally with a bubble on our head but

going into a coffee shop and drinking with a straw and with that you are hat

you have access to unsecured Wi-Fi by the fact that it's unsecured it gives

whoever might be hacking the ability to get into your computer so make sure you

only use secured Wi-Fi that is password and encrypted Wi-Fi

I hope these four tips were helpful if they were definitely give me a thumbs up

don't forget to subscribe to the channel and if anybody here is looking to buy or

sell a house when the lockdown is over I'm offering a free e-book on buying and

selling so click the link down below and I'll send that right out to you

stay safe and I'll see you on the next video