Filing Trends in Mortgage Loan Fraud: A Review of Suspicious Activity Reports Filed July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) provide a valuable tool for regulatory agen-cies and law enforcement seeking to isolate specific instances of potential criminal activity for further investigation and to identify emerging money laundering and terrorism financing trends. These efforts involve government agencies at the Fed-eral, state, and local levels that are authorized by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to access data derived from SARs.