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Warn every client before the money moves. Free.

One tap at the start of a transaction sends your client a fraud awareness notice with your name and photo on it. They can acknowledge receipt, and the send is logged with a timestamp in your name. The record does not prove they read it or prevent fraud.

  • Free for any licensed agent. Unlimited clients, no credit card, no expiration.
  • Written and kept current by Home Fraud Defense, so what you send is never a document you wrote two years ago.
  • Takes under a minute per client, and about two minutes to set up.

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Set yourself apart with something no other agent at that table brings
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You know what to look for, and your clients get the tools to look too
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Be the reason they still have your number a year later
Under a minute per clientUnlimited clientsNo credit cardNever expires

Two minutes to set up. Send your first notice today.

86%want training required

New national survey · NORC AmeriSpeak® · August 2026

Recent buyers and sellers want fraud-recognition training required.

64% encountered suspicious communications. 59% said fraud was not discussed—or they could not recall it.

See the national findings  →

Keeping up with real estate fraud is our job. Using it takes two minutes.

Home Fraud Defense is your fraud education partner. We follow the schemes targeting real estate transactions nationwide, wire redirection, seller and buyer impersonation, deed and title fraud, and the ones that arrive after closing. Then we turn them into material you hand your client with your name on it, and we update it when something new shows up. You do not have to track any of it. Free for you and your clients, in every state.

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Send the Fraud Awareness Notice to one client you are working with right now. About two minutes.

We do the tracking

New schemes get written up and land in your Fraud Alerts, dated, with what it looks like and what to tell a client. No research on your end.

You send it, co-branded

The Fraud Awareness Notice goes out at the start of the transaction and Post-Closing Awareness after the keys change hands, both carrying your name and contact.

You keep the record

Every notice you send and every check you run is logged with a timestamp, so you have a dated record of what was sent, to whom, and when.

An approved real estate fraud education school (Arizona Department of Real Estate, #S25-0019) · ARELLO Affiliate Member · Serving agents in all 50 states

Home Fraud Defense was built by a working agent after nearly closing on a home stolen through a forged deed.

Free, permanently

Everything your client needs, at no cost to you.

There is no trial and nothing expires. The client protection side is free because it should be, and because the more agents doing this, the fewer people lose their down payment.

8
Scheme categories
in the Transaction Safety Notice
21
Documented schemes
behind the post-closing notices
12
Fraud alerts a year
written for working agents
Send one
At the start of the transaction

Transaction Safety Notice

Co-branded with your name, photo, and brokerage. It reads as a personal message from you, not a bulk notice.

Covers
Wire fraudText message scamsCaller ID spoofingQR code fraudFake listingsDeed and title fraud
  • Three plain rules about closing money, with the escrow contact your client should be calling
  • One-click acknowledgment creates a communication record, not proof of reading or protection
  • Opt-in for free ongoing fraud alerts
Send two
After the file closes

Post-Closing Fraud Notice

Buyer and seller versions. Recording makes the sale public within days, and this is the phase no other vendor covers.

Covers
Deed and title targetingFake lien and payoff noticesUtility and warranty scamsSolicitation from the recordRomance and catfish targeting
  • Nine named schemes, each with the specific tells
  • An ordered list of what to do now, including county recorder alert enrollment
  • Links to the full set of 21 documented schemes
Every send is loggedA timestamped, version-stamped Protection Record in your name. It shows which version your client received and when they acknowledged it, and it stays on file with your brokerage.
You are told first when something is wrongA monthly fraud alert covering what is actually running right now, plus a one-tap incident report that routes straight to your broker, logged and timestamped.
None of it goes staleHome Fraud Defense rewrites both notices as schemes change. You send the same two things every time and they are current every time.

Nothing here confirms wire instructions or determines whether something is fraudulent. It describes what to watch for. Works in every state.

How the notices stay current

You are never the person deciding whether your fraud material is out of date.

Both notices, the one at the start of a transaction and the one after closing, are written and maintained by Home Fraud Defense, your fraud education partner. When a scheme changes, what your client receives changes, and you do nothing.

What we watch

Public fraud reporting, FBI IC3 data, state attorney general advisories, real estate regulator bulletins, and court filings. We attend and present at the conferences where investigators discuss this.

What we update

The transaction notice, the post-closing notice, and the monthly alert. Every version is stamped, so your Protection Record shows exactly which version your client received.

What that means for you

You send the same two things every time and they are current every time. This is also what the $99 annual renewal pays for: a fraud education partner keeps working after a course would have ended.

Every alert we publish carries its source. We do not pass along rumors.

Why agents actually send it

Keep yourself and your clients prepared

Give clients something useful they can see and trust. That visible preparation demonstrates your value, strengthens client confidence, helps you stand out from agents who have nothing specific to show, and reinforces the value you bring to your brokerage.

You look prepared

A professional notice with your name on it, sent before money is ever discussed. Most agents have never had anything like this to give a client.

You have an answer

When a seller asks how you protect them, you have something specific to say and something to show. The other two agents at that kitchen table do not.

You have a record

If a client is ever targeted, there is a timestamped communication record of what you sent and when. It does not prove they read it or prevent fraud.

The Business Growth Kit, $99 a year

The free account helps you inform clients. The Business Growth Kit builds your business.

Keep your free Monthly Client Safety Letter. For $99 a year, add your Client Safety Page with the newest published letter, alerts, resources, and your contact details under one link, alongside ready-to-share email and social materials, annual fraud training, and the HFDCP™ credential.

  • Your branded Client Safety Page—your contact details, the latest client letter, published fraud alerts, and helpful resources under one permanent link. A small link lets visitors verify your credential. Add the page to your email signature, social bio, and client messages. Share individual alerts with a personal introduction, email-ready copy, and square or portrait social graphics with captions. It does not monitor property, accounts, or transactions.
  • Social ads & marketing materials. Ready-to-post social ads and marketing materials with your name and photo, showing sellers exactly how you protect them from wire fraud, deed fraud, and post-closing targeting. This is the thing that wins the appointment.
  • The HFDCP designation, mark, and badge. For your signature, your profiles, and your marketing.
  • Fraud training, updated every year. The three-hour course — live Zoom, classroom, or on demand — covers every scheme in the notice you are sending, and is rewritten as the schemes change. Continuing education credit where your state has approved it.

Your permanent Client Safety Page link updates as content is published. Add it to your email signature, social bio, and client messages. A small link lets visitors verify your credential. Each individual alert also has its own link, so older emails and posts still open the right story. This is an information page, not monitoring of property, accounts, or transactions. You share the materials yourself; we never send to your client list. Consumers read shared alerts free.

Renews annually because the schemes change. Cancel any time and keep your course completion.

[Your name]
HFDCP Certified · [Your brokerage]
How I protect you in this transaction
  • You receive a written fraud awareness notice before we discuss money, covering the schemes that target sellers.
  • You get three plain rules about closing funds and the number you should be calling to confirm anything.
  • I complete fraud training every year and renew it, because the schemes do not hold still.
  • After closing, you receive a second notice covering what starts arriving once the sale becomes public record.
Ask any agent you are considering the same three questions. Any agent worth hiring will be glad you did.
Illustrative. Your marketing materials are generated with your details, ready to post or hand across the table.
Free against the Business Growth Kit

What the Business Growth Kit adds.

One upgrade to grow your business

Keep your free client tools, or upgrade to the Business Growth Kit for $99/year. Get branded marketing resources, training, and the opportunity to earn your HFDCP™ designation.

The Business Growth Kit includes everything in your free account.

Free account

Every licensed agent

Your plan

Business Growth Kit

Agents growing their business

Protecting your client
Client protection tools — 8 included features✓✓
Monthly Client Safety Letter and Client Safety Page
Monthly Client Safety Letter: professionally written practical precautions with your contact details✓✓
Monthly Client Safety Letter: copy, download, share a web link, or email yourself a copy✓✓
Your branded Client Safety Page—your contact details, the latest client letter, published fraud alerts, and helpful resources under one permanent link.—✓
Custom Fraud Social Media Creator—✓
Training
Fraud class—3 hours
Training updates as the schemes change—✓
Your name and your marketing
HFDCP™ designation, mark, and badge—✓
Your HFDCP™ profile, photo, license, brokerage, and contact—✓
Social ads & marketing materials—✓
What it costs
Your first year$0$99
Every year after that$0$99

Online and self-paced.
Start and stop as you like.

Step-by-step guide

Upgrade for $99/year. Complete the class and exam to earn your HFDCP™ designation.

Free account
$0 forever
Any licensed agent. No credit card, no expiration.

Includes the Monthly Client Safety Letter: professionally written practical precautions with your contact details, a useful reason to stay in touch. Copy, download, share the web version, or email yourself a copy to send through your own email or CRM.

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$99 per year
Everything free, plus your Client Safety Page, marketing materials, annual training, and the credential.

Your Client Safety Page brings together the newest published client letter, published alerts, helpful resources, and your contact details under one permanent link. Also includes personal alert introductions, email-ready alert copy, and square or portrait social graphics with captions.

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About the HFDCP™ credential

HFDCP stands for Home Fraud Defense Certified Professional, earned by completing the three-hour course. It is a private credential issued by Home Fraud Defense, not a state license, and it renews annually because the schemes change. Certified agents who want to teach the material in their community can apply to become an Authorized Community Fraud Instructor.

Issued by Home Fraud Defense, LLC · ARELLO/IDECC certified instruction · CE credit approved in Arizona, additional states in progress · Arizona Department of Real Estate school S25-0019

Common questions

Answered directly.

Send one notice on your next client.

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