Ohio Man Gets Two Years For Duping Man Out Of Home

In Springfield, Ohio, the Springfield News Sun reports on how a local homeowner was duped out of his house by a scammer, with an assist from a phony title closing agent:

• [T]he young man from Middletown who made an offer on [Patrick] Beckel's house, Dumond Henderson, was just one of many getting in on the action. The 27-year-old's scheme was a case study in mortgage fraud. By the time the Secret Service pieced it together, Henderson had duped Beckel out of his house, taken another man's identity and bilked a wholesale subprime lender out of $131,000.(1)

• In 2007 Henderson pleaded guilty to a federal wire-fraud charge. Last June — the same month he turned 30 — he was sentenced in United States District Court to a two year prison term. Currently he is serving a 10-month sentence in a state penitentiary on an unrelated forgery charge.

For more, see Local homeowner duped in mortgage scam.

(1) According to the story, what Beckel didn't know was that the title agency handling the closing, Ultimate Resource Group, was fake, court records show. Henderson had set it up himself. The person posing as the title agent was just a friend of his.