Many mortgage fraud attempts involve mortgagors who are purportedly overseas or mortgagors who want to be witnessed remotely. This is because:
- If we suspect a fraudster we will always attempt to have them arrested at the time of executing the document. If they are overseas we cannot do that.
- We cannot perform adequate due diligence on overseas witnesses (even overseas Australian solicitors or Embassy staff).
- Live deep fake video technology makes remote identification and witnessing worthless.
For this reason we do not accept remote witnessing or overseas witnessing.
