Mortgage companies lack security
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I have a story about that! In my case it was my legal firm, they were even worse!
Privacy story time. A law firm (I've since fired) had those "legal" notices in all their email they'd send me. I told them multiple times that email is considered public and any information sent via email is the equivalent of shouting it on the street corner. Nothing happened for the longest time. Then I get an email from them out of the blue "Your closing documents are ready." Closing documents, what closing documents? Suspecting spam/phishing I check the header and it's really from who it says it's from. All the scans of the pdf they sent come back as clean, so I take a look. They had sent me the closing documents for some poor guys house. I had ALL his and his wife's PII (personally identifiable information, I've done too much PCI compliance by now.) Fired off another reply, copying the state attorney general office, this time including a couple of references to Ohio law cases that made it clear email is a form of public communication unsuitable to any sort of private correspondence, no matter what sort of disclaimer is contained within said email. Haven't heard from them since (good riddance.)
Guess if I ever turn to a life of crime I'll be all set for using an alternate ID..... Not really, deleted it after having finished dealing with the AG's office. Wish they would have let me know what came of that whole deal.
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It's sadly very common for lawyers to be the ones that know this stuff the least or take the least interest in it
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
The moment my mortgage company asks for that, is the moment I start looking for a new one.
When you find one that doesn't do that, let me know.
My Loan Officers when I started looking for a house requested password protected zip files. (not perfect by any stretch of the means, but better than plain text!)... My actualy mortgage company requires stuff to be uploaded to their web portal (which is suprisingly behind SSL, lol).
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@dafyre said:
My Loan Officers when I started looking for a house requested password protected zip files. (not perfect by any stretch of the means, but better than plain text!)... My actualy mortgage company requires stuff to be uploaded to their web portal (which is suprisingly behind SSL, lol).
They great. These people acted like I was insane.
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Meh, i know my bankers and attorneys. None of the horror stories you all have.
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@hubtechagain said:
Meh, i know my bankers and attorneys. None of the horror stories you all have.
Bank options are few and far between. Not many choices for most of us. Attorneys we select, so never see these issues with OUR attorneys. But attorney clients... wowzers.
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oh man, i think the only thing we have more of in hattiesburg than churches is banks..... we're a smallish city, but i can think of 10+ individual banks each having up to 10 branches in town lol.
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@hubtechagain said:
That sounds like my home town... Except there's 3 banks and probably 60 churches.
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@RamblingBiped said:
ROFL. Funny little tidbit. The church I grew up going to is growing out of the building that they've been in for 30+ years. They just bought a shopping center (an old Kroger) and there's a Mexican Restaurant + Bar at the edge of the property.
I bet that restaurant is going to be booming for a while, lol.
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