When we added the Conflict of Interest check to TurboLaw, we never imagined that people would come to depend on it as much as they have. Of course, once we learned how much people were using it, we immediately set out to make it better!
From Bruce Schneier’s blog and Boston.com:
Tax liens, mortgage papers, deeds, and other real estate-related documents are publicly available in on-line databases run by registries of deeds across the state. It’s easy to say “we haven’t seen any cases of fraud using our information,†because there’s rarely a way to tell where information comes from.