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Settlement scams getting harder and harder to detect
WHEN conveyancer Shelley Baker asked her client a standard question on settlement day, she didn’t expect it to save them nearly $200,000. Baker, who works for Nest Legal in Melbourne, casually asked if the seller had provided their bank details to the real estate agent. The seller said no, despite the fund transfer being just hours away. “That immediately raised some concerns for us, so we asked the client to call the real estate agent immediately to confirm and provide their bank account details,” Baker said. “Someone pretending to be our client had alread
