What Closinglock Is (and why your escrow doesn’t need holy water)

Closinglock is a purpose-built shield for real-estate money movement—the place where wire instructions, payoffs, and sensitive ID docs stop traveling by “hope and Gmail” and move through a locked-down, SOC 2 Type II-certified portal. In plain speak: it’s how you keep thieves’ sticky fingers off your clients’ funds while making your team faster and calmer.

Closinglock is so dedicated to making closings safe, they have devoted a LOT of time and effort to creating and supporting educational materials for title agents about wire and real estate fraud and we’ve rounded up them all up in one place! You’re going to want to bookmark this page, send it to all of your staff, and come back to it again and again for your monthly office fraud training sessions.

What Closinglock Does for Title Agents (besides lower your blood pressure)

Before we dive into their content library, I want you understand the body armor Closinglock provides for your agency. Education is great. Protection is better. Here’s how Closinglock keeps your money, messages, and payoffs out of the danger zone.

Secure wire instructions, end-to-end. No more emailing PDFs that become phishing bait. Buyers and sellers get verified access, you get an audit trail, and everyone sleeps at night. (The FBI tallied ~$2.9B in BEC losses in 2023—don’t donate.)

Payoff verification that’s actually instant. Route and account numbers are checked in seconds; Closinglock can also order payoffs for you and insure verified payoffs up to $2.5M. Translation: less “please hold,” more “clear to close.”
Works with your stack. Built to integrate with the title/escrow ecosystem so your team isn’t copy-pasting sensitive data like it’s 2009.
Automated payoff retrieval (with instant verification + insurance). Request payoffs in a few clicks—no faxes, portals, or hold music—then Closinglock verifies the account details in seconds and insures verified payoffs up to $2.5M. Less chasing, more closing.
- 🐐🎙️🧨 Stop Chasing Payoffs: A Field Guide for Burnt-Out Title Agents Who Have Better Things To Do
FinCEN data capture & compliance, baked in. Title teams can centralize the new AML data collection inside Closinglock, streamline doc requests (hello DocuSign), and cut the manual grind from hours to minutes—so you’re audit-ready without sacrificing your sanity.
- 🐐You’re Not Alone: How Closinglock Can Help You Tackle FinCEN Compliance (Without Losing Your Mind)
Secure two-way texting, tied to the file. Text buyers, sellers, agents, and lenders from right inside the transaction; messages are logged to the file so your team sees the full thread. Real-time replies, no extra app, no context lost to the group-chat void.
- 🐐 Is Two-Way Texting About to Revolutionize Your Title Closings? Closinglock Thinks So.
- 🎥🔒Closing the Gap: How Closinglock’s Secure Two-Way Texting Stops Fraud Before It Starts
Proven at scale. More than a million people have closed safely using Closinglock, which is the opposite of a science experiment on your customers.

Why We Like It (the Wicked take)

Because “send wire instructions by email” is the horror-movie decision where the audience screams DON’T GO IN THERE. Closinglock turns that dark hallway into a well-lit corridor with cameras, a guard dog, and a sign that says “Fraudsters will be yeeted.” It cuts busywork, reduces liability, and makes you look like the adult in the room—all while protecting the money your clients spent years saving.

If you’re building a closing workflow that’s fast, defensible, and sponsor-friendly, this is one of the tools that earns its keep. Add your favorite Closinglock articles, case studies, and interviews below, and let the learning (not the wiring) flow.

Learn from the Best! The Closinglock Resource Library

This is your fraud-fighting pantry: interviews, case studies, how-tos, webinars, and checklists—all curated so title pros can learn fast and implement faster.