Elderly Foreclosed Couple Resists Bogus Bank Employees Attempting Lock-Changing Scam To Bluff Them Out Of Home

In Redding, California, The Record Searchlight reports:

• Everett and Delores Dale knew something wasn't right when two men pulled up to their Enterprise-area home one day unannounced and told them they needed to get out. Though the couple had lost their home to foreclosure on Sept. 2, the bank had not given the Dales a move-out date. But the men in the pickup were persistent. They advised the Dales they were representing Bank of America and would return in two days to change the locks, 80-year-old Delores Dale recalled.

• The Dales would later learn they nearly became victims of a scam popular in Southern California. Posing as bank employees, the scammers go to a foreclosed home and give the occupant an ultimatum. Often, the victim will get scared and move out, leaving the house vacant. The scammers either move in or rent out the house until the bank catches on.

For more, see Foreclosure scammers hit Redding (Delores and Everett Dale are losing their home to foreclosure. Two men came to their door recently and told them they were there to change the locks, a scam that has been making the rounds in Southern California).