A Southern California couple is sharing a warning to other potential homebuyers after they said they fell victim to a mortgage fraud scheme that nearly cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The couple, who asked ABC News to identify them only by their first names, Lynette and Scott, said the incident occurred when they were going to submit a down payment on a home.
They said they had been corresponding via email with their mortgage broker, when they received what looked like a message from the broker that contained a misspelled word in the sender’s email address.
“It was an exact duplicate of any correspondence that we’ve had with the company before,” Scott recalled, speaking with ABC News’ Aaron Katersky. “It was identical, but for one keystroke.”
Instead of “escrow.com,” Lynette said the email came from an address that used two V’s in place of a W.
“So, instead of ‘escrow.com,’ it…
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