If anyone approaches you with an offer to buy your house that seems even the least bit out of the ordinary, there’s a fair possibility that the money for the deal is coming from illegal drugs, prostitution or some other aspect of organized crime.

There are no hard-and-fast statistics, but law enforcement authorities suspect that money laundering is becoming more common.

So much so that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, is considering a rule that would require real estate brokers to file the same suspicious activity reports that lenders are compelled to file when they smell something fishy.

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