We found a website impersonating an escrow company. We got it taken down.

On July 10, 2026, Veto found a website using the name of a real, licensed California escrow company.

The site looked professionally made. It described escrow services, showed customer reviews and company logos, and invited people to start transactions.

Veto compared the website with the California DFPI public record for the licensed company.

Three details did not match:

• The phone number was a placeholder, not a working business number.
• The address did not match the address in the DFPI public record.
• The support email used the impersonating website’s domain, not the licensed company’s domain.

Veto contacted the licensed escrow company directly and shared what we had found.

The company’s outside counsel confirmed that the website was not affiliated with the licensed company.

Veto did not contact the impersonating website or submit information through it. We preserved dated copies of the pages and the contact details shown on the site.

The same incorrect address and placeholder phone number appeared on other, unrelated websites.

Veto did not claim that the websites had the same owner. We reported that the repeated details suggested the same website template may have been reused.

Veto reported the website to the domain registrar, the hosting provider, California DFPI, and FBI IC3.

The hosting provider blocked the website’s IP address within 48 hours. The registrar took the website offline on July 15, five days after Veto found it.

A professional website, business name, and license number can all be copied.

If a transaction is questioned later, the office may need to show what information it had, what it checked, what did not match, and why it made its decision.

Keeping that information together can also help the office see problems before money is sent.

Veto records what the escrow office checked, what questions remained, who reviewed the information, and what the office decided.

The record helps the office make a more informed decision before money is sent. It also shows the work the office completed if the decision is questioned later.