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The Aug 2020 article is about real estate transactions at the close of escrow. Does that mean people are accidentally using Ethereum? Yikes!

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The discussion is about a common scam in real estate, no Ethereum involved. The point the poster was making is that scams occur whenever there's potentially large profit to be made, and they're as much a feature of the "real" financial system as the cryptocurrency world.

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