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Fraudster Claims Inalienable Right to Scam
'It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye'. Did your mother ever tell you that when you were a kid? Yeah, I never understood it either - but then I never poked my eye out either so that might be the difference. It really was all fun and games.
But while nobody would accuse the real estate fraud industry of being all fun and games, at least it has been a relatively peaceful genre of crime - which may be one reason it hasn't garnered the attention in deserves from law enforcement. As our own DA told us - it's just not a 'sexy' crime, and not one with readily definable good guys and bad guys. Sometimes the good guys are just really stupid guys or really greedy guys and it's hard to generate much sympathy for them. Sometimes the bad guys are also really stupid guys or start out with an idea to help people and get carried away. 
Until now. As pointed out in today's article from the Sacramento Bee, it would seem the stakes are being raised. While anybody familiar with fraud has heard about the scam artists posing as property owners to rent vacant homes ... more

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