A few weeks ago, longtime realtor Chris Anderson got a text from a person who wanted her help.

“They wanted to talk to me about selling their land,” she said. “They said that they lived out of area and they would need to have handholding through the process. And so I said, ‘Sure, let me help you with that.’”

The impersonator gave her the correct property owner’s name, his wife's name and their address in Wyoming. They even had a notary and made a fake email account using the property owner’s name for her to send documents to.

“It's a sophisticated scammer,” she said.

Anderson didn’t suspect anything until she noticed the property worth more than $2 million was already listed for sale and the scammer was trying to let it go for $150,000.

“That's normally another trigger that either the

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