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What Closinglock Is (and why your escrow doesn’t need holy water)

Closinglock is a purpose-built shield for real-estate money movement—the place where wire instructions, payoffs, and sensitive ID docs stop traveling by “hope and Gmail” and move through a locked-down, SOC 2 Type II-certified portal. In plain speak: it’s how you keep thieves’ sticky fingers off your clients’ funds while making your team faster and calmer.

Closinglock is so dedicated to making closings safe, they have devoted a LOT of time and effort to creating and supporting educational materials for title agents about wire and real estate fraud and we’ve rounded up them all up in one place! You’re going to want to bookmark this page, send it to all of your staff, and come back to it again and again for your monthly office fraud training sessions.

Closinglock booth at ALTA One 2025 in NYC

What Closinglock Does for Title Agents (besides lower your blood pressure)

Before we dive into their content library, I want you understand the body armor Closinglock provides for your agency. Education is great. Protection is better. Here’s how Closinglock keeps your money, messages, and payoffs out of the danger zone.

• Secure wire instructions, end-to-end. No more emailing PDFs that become phishing bait. Buyers and sellers get verified access, you get an audit trail, and everyone sleeps at night. (The FBI tallied ~$2.9B in BEC losses in 2023—don’t donate.)

• ID verification and e-workflows in one place. Identity checks, document exchange, eSigning, and secure payments—fewer tabs, fewer traps.

• Payoff verification that’s actually instant. Route and account numbers are checked in seconds; Closinglock can also order payoffs for you and insure verified payoffs up to $2.5M. Translation: less “please hold,” more “clear to close.”

• Works with your stack. Built to integrate with the title/escrow ecosystem so your team isn’t copy-pasting sensitive data like it’s 2009.

• Automated payoff retrieval (with instant verification + insurance). Request payoffs in a few clicks—no faxes, portals, or hold music—then Closinglock verifies the account details in seconds and insures verified payoffs up to $2.5M. Less chasing, more closing.

  • 🐐🎙️🧨 Stop Chasing Payoffs: A Field Guide for Burnt-Out Title Agents Who Have Better Things To Do

• FinCEN data capture & compliance, baked in. Title teams can centralize the new AML data collection inside Closinglock, streamline doc requests (hello DocuSign), and cut the manual grind from hours to minutes—so you’re audit-ready without sacrificing your sanity.

  • 🐐You’re Not Alone: How Closinglock Can Help You Tackle FinCEN Compliance (Without Losing Your Mind)

• Secure two-way texting, tied to the file. Text buyers, sellers, agents, and lenders from right inside the transaction; messages are logged to the file so your team sees the full thread. Real-time replies, no extra app, no context lost to the group-chat void.

  • 🐐 Is Two-Way Texting About to Revolutionize Your Title Closings? Closinglock Thinks So.

  • 🎥🔒Closing the Gap: How Closinglock’s Secure Two-Way Texting Stops Fraud Before It Starts

• Proven at scale. More than a million people have closed safely using Closinglock, which is the opposite of a science experiment on your customers.

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Why We Like It (the Wicked take)

Because “send wire instructions by email” is the horror-movie decision where the audience screams DON’T GO IN THERE. Closinglock turns that dark hallway into a well-lit corridor with cameras, a guard dog, and a sign that says “Fraudsters will be yeeted.” It cuts busywork, reduces liability, and makes you look like the adult in the room—all while protecting the money your clients spent years saving.

If you’re building a closing workflow that’s fast, defensible, and sponsor-friendly, this is one of the tools that earns its keep. Add your favorite Closinglock articles, case studies, and interviews below, and let the learning (not the wiring) flow.

Learn from the Best! The Closinglock Resource Library

This is your fraud-fighting pantry: interviews, case studies, how-tos, webinars, and checklists—all curated so title pros can learn fast and implement faster.

Wire Fraud Prevention Kit

Closinglock has stepped up in a big way to support agents fighting wire fraud by making our Wire Fraud Prevention Consumer Education Easy Kit—now FREE for the first 50 agents to download it.

This done-for-you marketing toolkit is packed with ready-to-use templates, flyers, articles, and social posts (31 in all) to help you:

• Deter scammers & Educate Referral Partners with public facing assets

• Educate clients before the scammers reach them

• Train your team without starting from scratch

• Strengthen your brand with pro-level materials

Why is Closinglock sponsoring it? Because their mission is to protect closings—and the people in them. This kit does just that.

Snag your free Wire Fraud Prevention Kit courtesy of Closinglock before the 50 downloads are gone!

Fraud Education

• 📄Articles

• The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: Closinglock Talks About AI Fraud in Real Estate

• 🎥Videos

  • Protecting a Borrower’s Life Savings Against Real Estate

  • How Are Digital Payments More Secure Than Wire Transfers?

  • Uncover the Latest Tactics Used by Real Estate Fraudsters with April Gentry of ClosingLock

  • Frontline Fraud Fighter: Protecting Real Estate Transactions - Andy White from Closinglock

• 🎥 Webinars

  • Closinglock: Payoff Fraud Revealed

  • Cybersecurity in Title: Best Practices and Secure Solutions from Closinglock

  • Texting Without the Risk: How to Keep Clients Safe (and Hackers Out) with Closinglock

  • Document Sharing in Real Estate has Become Messy, Fragmented — And Dangerously Exposed to Fraud - Closinglock is Teaching You How to Get Out of the Inbox and Lock Down Your Docs

  • Closinglock Discusses The Reality of Real Estate Fraud in 2025 that the FBI’s IC3 isn’t Reporting

  • Outsmarting Fraudsters: New Tools to Prevent Seller Fraud presented by Closinglock

  • Fortifying Title Production: Closinglock + SoftPro

  • Stop Chasing Paper Checks: The Safer Way to Collect Funds with Closinglock

  • Closinglock: Seller Fraud Unmasked

Case Studies

• 📄🔒How Flying S Title stopped multiple fraud attempts with vigilance and Closinglock

• 📄🔒How Capital Title Insurance Agency caught 7 vacant land seller fraud attempts with Closinglock

• 🎥🔒 Closinglock Presents: Real-World Wire Fraud Cases and Prevention (Webinar)

• 🎥🔒 National Integrity Title Talks About What is Closing Lock and How Will it Protect Buyers and Sellers

Interviews

• 🎥🔒It’s Not the Idea, It’s the Execution: Andy White’s Closinglock Journey

• 🎥🔒Andy White’s Personal Encounter with Wire Fraud and the Birth of Closinglock

Press Releases

• 🐐Closinglock Secures $34M in Funding to Strengthen Fraud Prevention in Real Estate: What This Means for Title Agents Who are Fighting Fraud

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