
Orange County Issues Alert on New Real Estate Fraud Scheme
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents to a real estate scam where criminals use forged documents to fraudulently sell property they do not own.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents to a real estate scam where criminals use forged documents to fraudulently sell property they do not own.

As real estate mogul Ken Mattson faces federal fraud charges, the lender that financed his empire, Socotra Capital, is under intense scrutiny from investors.

A former Calgary realtor has been banned from the industry for life after admitting to a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of over $3.5 million.

A South Charleston man who called himself the 'Wolf of West Virginia' has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a real estate scheme that defrauded 180 people.

A federal judge nullified a $1.5 million New Jersey home sale, ordering sellers to return the full price after they hid major defects and unpermitted renovations.

Federal prosecutors charged eight people in a scheme that allegedly stole over $8 million from a Minnesota housing program to fund luxury cars and foreign real estate.

A sophisticated real estate scam known as title piracy is on the rise, where criminals forge documents to sell properties they do not own. Learn the key red flags.