Posted on 03/24/2024 6:07:34 AM PDT by dennisw
“It’s too easy to forge a deed and record it,” Real estate attorney Richard Alembik told WSB-TV. “It’s a big problem nowadays, because of the fact that e-filing, the e-recording of deeds is so easy. It’s very easy to record forged deeds.”
Alembik said notaries don’t check the identification of the people who submit the documents to verify if they are the rightful homeowners.
Victims of fraud who have proof to be the rightful homeowners can still be ordered by a judge to move out and pay fines, according to the outlet.
An elderly Georgia homeowner was forced out of his house and arrested when an alleged swindler used fraudulent documents to claim ownership of the property.
Charles and Charmaine Allman lived in the same Stone Mountain, Ga. home — located 16 miles east of Atlanta — for the last two decades before officials told the couple Tuesday that they no longer owned the house and had to vacate.
“They made us feel like we were squatters,” Charmaine Allman told WSB-TV. “Just tossed my stuff out like it was trash.”
Most of the couple’s belongings were scattered all over the yard.
The outlet reported that an anonymous man allegedly falsified a deed and submitted the documents online with Dekalb County to claim ownership of the Allman’s home.
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You’re not understanding the scam. The scammer used stolen identities and forged signatures to commit the multiple crimes involved.
They know the stolen identities, but not the persons who used them and they are long gone with the money the scammed from the bank.
That’s the guy who bought it at a bank foreclosure auction.
Read carefully, the 2nd mortgage is mentioned and how the house ended up in foreclosure.
“The outlet reported that an anonymous man allegedly falsified a deed and submitted the documents online with Dekalb County to claim ownership of the Allman’s home.”
“The couple became suspicious of the sketchy activity when they received letters in the mail confirming that a second mortgage had been taken out.”
They just choose not to unless they are sure the people will not fight back.
As in this case.
[Squatting, shoplifting, petty and major crimes will all increase dramatically (it’s already started, of course). At this point, can even Trump turn it around?]
“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.” - George Mason
I don’t think we’ll see an organized militia appear any time soon.
But we just might see “committees of vigilance” appear in some places. Eventually decent folks will have had enough. Your mom gets attacked while she’s out shopping. Your house gets broken into while you’re at work. These things will eventually set people off.
Unfortunately, the state probably then wake up, and interfere on the side of the criminals. You tried to rid your neighborhood of crime? You’re under arrest, pal.
Interesting times are ahead.
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