Friday, April 25, 2008

Miami Homeowner Scammed In Foreclosure Rescue Deal

In Miami, Florida, WTVJ-TV Channel 6 reports on a foreclosure rescue scheme that utilized unwitting college students to go door to door and approach homeowners facing foreclosure with a program purportedly designed to save their homes, but was nothing more than a scheme to get them to unknowingly sign away their homes, and ultimately evict the homeowner from the house.

The students were recruited on the Florida Memorial University by the Syntegral Corporation headed by Michael John and Denise Gomes. The financially strapped homeowner ultimately signed away her home to another company, Kelynem Properties, and Dudley Kinlock. Not long after signing the paperwork that she thought was a loan refinance, Kinlock moved to have the homeowner evicted.

For more, see Stealing Home? (watch video) (read transcript).

Addendum:

On April 1, 2009, this blog was contacted by a representative for Syntegral and was advised that there are no active cases or investigations involving the firm.