<prompt> Human: My wife and I are in the process of buying a home, and we very nearly lost a good chunk of money to an email scam.We received an email from our real estate attorney asking us to wire the money for our closing costs so they can put it in escrow, as well as an email from our real estate agent asking us to send the money. Both emails made it clear that it was important that we send the money today, or our closing would be at risk.This raised some red flags with us because we hadnt received our closing disclosure document yet so we had no idea what our exact closing costs would be, and we were told previously that we wouldnt need the money until closer to closing were about a week out.So my wife called our real estate agent to ask what was going on, who told us that she hadnt sent us any emails today. Upon further review, we discovered that while the email names and signatures matched, the addresses did not. The law firm email is abcdlaw.com, but this email came from abcdllaw.com.What we suspect happened is that our information was hacked and stolen from the title company. They then had our address, names, and the names, firms, addresses, and mannerisms of our attorney and agent.Lessons for everyone:1 Be skeptical with money, especially when buying a house. If something seems off, dont hesitate to confirm, preferably by phone, with multiple parties2 Dont wire money all willy-nilly. Your bank and law firm will almost certainly not transmit wiring information by email. They will use something marginally more secure like DocuSign.3 Talk with the experts youre paying good money to have on your side ahead of time so you know what you should be expecting and when. If something happens that doesnt match what they told you, call to confirm.Not our story, but a similar one:Hope this helps someone else avoid tragedy when buying a house. Home buying is stressful enough as is.  <response>: We had a similar experience buying our house. Attorney sends an expected e-mail with wire instructions. Thankfully, at the bottom of her e-mail, there was a warning statement to disregard any follow-up e-mails because of scams. Sure enough, within a few minutes of the first e-mail, another one came through that essentially said whoops, my bad on the wire details, here are the real s. At that point I called and spoke directly with the attorney to confirm the correct s. Sellers have the , we have the house, and the scammers have nothing. Be careful out there, folks! 