I once sold a house while in a different state, and the real estate agent was positively baffled that I wanted to know how the person who was supposed to collect my banking information and identifying information would identify himself to me.

They really just expected me to meet some guy in a polo shirt at a coffee shop and let him take a snapshot of my passport and all my bank account info.

Frankly scammers have it too easy when the real thing works like this!