There are thousands of ways for people to get our email addresses. We use our email several hundred times a week with customers and vendors of all types and all it takes is one bad apple in the group to use this information to try and fool someone.  You don't have to be some Russian hacker to find this information.  Social media sometimes give away clues too....the happy real estate agent who announces that one of their listings is under contract on Facebook or Twitter.  The giddy loan officer who does a new homeowner seminar together with a representative of a title agency and they use constant contact to blast it out to large email lists.  Suddenly you know who has working relationships.  In New Jersey the title agencies, in order to get priority position on their upcoming transaction, file Notices of Settlement in the public records saying who is involved in the transaction and anyone can look and see which title company is involved in the transaction.  The information used in these wire scams come from everyday releases of information we do without thinking it could be used against us.  Anyone with enough time on their hands can figure this stuff out without having to resort to overseas data mines.  There are already enough loose lips in this industry to sink an entire industry fleet.

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