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Nearly half of all moving scam-related complaints submitted to the Federal Department of Transportation in 2023 came out of Florida .
The agency dubbed the state No. 1 in the country at risk of moving fraud that same year .
The new state law targets one kind of scam specifically: moving brokers.
It requires all documents to be prepared by a moving company registered with the state.
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