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Mortgage Broker Lost $400,000 in Fraud Scam

Mortgage broker Nancy Bocian says she is a victim of fraud, to the tune of $400,000. She turned her life-savings over to Rebecca Solomon back in August, with six or seven other investors. At that time each was making small investments of between $30,000-$60,000, but Bocian invested much more. "I had no reason not to believe her, none." she said. "I had seen the house, I went to that party, I went out to dinners with them."

Bocian says that she knew things went wrong when their original agreement didn't work out on schedule, she was promised 10% interest per month and that the monies would be paid back in 60 days, avoiding the tax penalties on the IRA the money initially came out of. Not only did that not happen, but Nancy continued to attempt to contact Rebecca, who emailed more false promises in response. "It was not a good day for me because not only was I out that money, but the penalties amounted to $227,000 that I don't have." Nancy has since been in contact with the FBI, who raided the Tiburon, CA mansion just two weeks ago.

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