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“Credit came clean, background came clean, eviction came clean, criminal record came clean. Everything was clean,” the realtor said, who asked for his name to be withheld over safety concerns. Inside the home, the homeowner’s family found stacks of boxes from designer brands, bank, insurance and passport cards with different names, and tens of thousands of dollars in checks with other names.
“More and more people are doing it, it’s getting a little bit more sophisticated. And, you know, you got to use technology as best as you can to stay in front of it,” Houston Association of Realtors’ chair Thomas Mouton said., which can be used to research identity, financial, property, and criminal records of potential clients.