🐐🎙️Check Washing Fraud Is Still a Problem: Here’s How to Protect Your Escrow Accounts
Protect your title agency's escrow accounts from check washing fraud: Learn how positive pay can stop criminals and prevent costly financial losses before they happen.
🎙️ Wicked Title Folks – Episode:
🎙️Check Washing & Positive Pay
Title Agents, It’s Time to Lock Down Your Escrow Accounts
Check fraud is back—and it’s bolder (and grosser) than ever.
In this episode, Cheryl breaks down the rise of check washing and how Positive Pay can stop fraud dead in its tracks before your funds ever leave the account.
Whether it’s criminals at the mailbox or a rogue former employee, this type of fraud is happening all across the title industry—and if you’re still mailing checks without Positive Pay, you’re playing escrow roulette.
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🧠 Unlock the Full Guide below by becoming a Wicked Title Member and gain access to:
What “check washing” is and how it works
Real stories from title agents who’ve been hit
What Positive Pay does (and why it’s non-negotiable)
Tech tips: which tools and vendors can help automate protection
Wicked-smart action steps you can take today to secure your funds
As a title agent, you manage large sums of client money—and that makes your escrow account a prime target for an old but still easy and common form of fraud: Check washing.
