Accusations Of Pocketed Monthly Payments, Forged Loan Mod Approval Leads Investigators To 16 Possible Victims Of Suspected Foreclosure Relief Racket

In Fresno, California, KFSN-TV Channel 30 reports:

• The Fresno County district attorney's office is investigating U.S. Foreclosure Relief and some associated businesses, all tracing back to one suspect. Espi Chavez is used to taking ownership. She owns her own beauty salon in Selma, and a few apartments around town, but she no longer owns her own home. The modest house, a few blocks from Selma High School, sold at foreclosure auction last July. But Chavez didn't find out until someone from the bank told her she needed to move out.



• For the previous nine months, Chavez had been writing checks to U.S. Foreclosure Relief, trying to get her mortgage loan modified.



• She even received a letter saying the modification was approved a month before the foreclosure auction. She now believes it was a fake, manufactured by the owner of U.S. Foreclosure Relief, Vickie Fuentes.

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• Fresno County district attorney's office investigators served a search warrant at one of the business' former addresses, as well as at the home where Vickie Fuentes lived with her husband. They discovered at least 16 possible victims.



• Action News tried to contact Fuentes, but no one answered the door and phone calls went unanswered. Espi Chavez doesn't expect to ever hear from her again, but she wants to see her... in police custody.

For the story, see Selma woman loses home in foreclosure relief scam.