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In 2019, Walker told NBC News she signed a rent-to-own lease on a three-bedroom home in Detroit with a man named Maurice, who gave her a copy of the deed for the house. The house had no furnace ...
The scam has flourished in Detroit, where a foreclosure crisis devastated homeownership, leaving tens of thousands of properties vacant or in the hands of out-of-town investors.
The Detroit Land Bank Authority [1] is a public authority that owns and manages approximately 100,000 parcels of property in the city of Detroit, making it the city's largest landowner. [ 2 ] Occasionally framed as a quasi-governmental entity , the Detroit Land Bank operates a number of programs to reduce the number of Detroit properties that ...
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Details from the Detroit bankruptcy filing. The city of Detroit, Michigan, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013. It is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history by debt, estimated at $18–20 billion, exceeding Jefferson County, Alabama's $4-billion filing in 2011. [1]
The letters, received by several residents in January, contain what looks like a $199 check that purports to be a “Registration Fee Voucher” from “County Deed Records.”