Bakersfield Man Claims To Be Identity Theft / Mortgage Fraud Victim

(revised 7-25-07; 7-27-07)

KGET-TV News 17 in Bakersfield, California reports:

• "A Bakersfield man said someone stole his identity and used it to buy a home, and doesn’t know where to turn for help. That home is now on the brink of foreclosure. [...] He swears he never signed a single loan document, but it’s his name on documents qualifying him for a $330,000 loan brokered by Aloha Mortgage of Bakersfield and funded by New Century Mortgage of Los Angeles."

For more, watch the Channel 17 reports, Whose House Is This?; and Whose House Is This? - Part 2.

To read the online reports, see:

• Man claims mortgage fraud as home foreclosure looms, and
• Man claims identity theft in possible mortgage scam.

Story update, BPD re-opens man's possible identity theft case.