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  • Brooklyn Property Thief Allegedly Steals The Same Apartment Building Twice

    Brooklyn Property Thief Allegedly Steals The Same Apartment Building Twice

    A convicted fraudster, who previously served time for stealing houses, is now facing charges for allegedly stealing the same $2 million Brooklyn apartment building on two occasions, per Daily News. Prosecutors claim that 55-year-old Danny Noble filed false documents to assert ownership of a three-story brick building on Carlton Ave. in Fort Greene.

    This was reportedly one of the nine homes he had been convicted of stealing in the early 2010s. Noble, a resident of Baldwin, N.Y., was initially arrested in 2015 for filing fraudulent documents with the city’s Department of Finance to take control of seven homes in Brooklyn and two in Queens. Noble and an accomplice targeted properties that were often unoccupied and not frequently visited by their owners. After obtaining the titles, they either rented out the homes or sold them. 

    Danny Noble’s Second Attempt

    Noble was paroled in September 2021 after serving a sentence of four-and-a-half to nine years for his crimes, according to prosecutors. On Tuesday, he returned to the same Brooklyn Supreme Court judge who had previously sentenced him. This time entering a plea of not guilty to charges of first-degree grand larceny and other offenses. In September 2023, Noble submitted a deed transferring ownership from himself to himself, asserting that he had been the legitimate owner of the property since 2010, according to Farrell. He also initiated a lawsuit against the true owner of the property, alleging that the owner’s deed was fraudulent.

    Authorities also discovered Noble’s earlier scam when he and accomplice Romelo Grey transferred the title of a Canarsie house to a third-party buyer. During an inspection, they found tenants living there and told them they needed to move out. The buyer’s renovations attracted the attention of a nearby business owner, who turned out to be the actual owner of the stolen property. Grey was sentenced to one-and-a-half to three years in prison. Noble’s bail is set at $2.5 million bond or $300,000 cash.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Former Housekeeper Allegedly Posed As Holiday Toy Donor To Attack and Kidnap Volunteer

    Former Housekeeper Allegedly Posed As Holiday Toy Donor To Attack and Kidnap Volunteer

    A woman volunteering for a community holiday toy drive was allegedly kidnapped and assaulted by her former housekeeper, who pretended to be a donor, per the NY Post.

    Erin Quinn was helping with the local holiday toy drive in her Southern California neighborhood when she received a text from an unknown number. The message claimed to be from an elderly woman wanting to donate gifts, as reported by KTLA. Quinn agreed to meet, and the con artist, who identified herself as Connie, provided an address for the donation pickup.

    On Wednesday, when Quinn arrived at the specified location and approached the house, she received another message stating that someone would bring the toys to her car. However, upon returning to her vehicle, someone was already inside waiting for her. A woman in her backseat grabbed Quinn’s hair and shocked her with a taser, then ordered her to start driving.

    About 25 minutes into the ordeal, Quinn, who had already been tased around 30 times, crashed the vehicle. Both women exited the car and started to struggle. In her attempt to defend herself, Quinn managed to bite off part of her assailant’s finger, as reported by KTLA.

    ”I kicked her as hard as I could,”

    Quinn told the outlet.

    “She tried to put her fingers in my mouth, maybe in an attempt to rip my mouth open, and in a complete panic, I bit part of a portion of her finger off in self-defense because I didn’t know what else to do.”

    Quinn recounted that it was at that moment she realized her attacker was her former housekeeper, Olga Mendez, who was wearing a blonde wig. She managed to escape only when a bystander, whom she referred to as her

    “hero,”

    rushed to her aid. Quinn sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Local authorities have not yet made any arrests. 

    “I strongly believe that her plan was to kidnap me and take me to Mexico for either ransom or sale,”

    Quinn explained.

    “I am completely terrified. I don’t know why she would do this.”

    A GoFundMe campaign created for Quinn by a close friend has so far raised $1,890 of its $8,000 target.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Fraudster Posing As Bank Official Scams Woman Of N2.8M

    Fraudster Posing As Bank Official Scams Woman Of N2.8M

    According To Punch, An Abuja-based businesswoman, Mrs Juliet Okpako, is currently devastated after losing N2.8m to a fraudster who posed as a bank official. The distraught woman said trouble started when a lady contacted her on the telephone and claimed to be calling from her bank. She said the caller, who identified herself as Ms. Joy, told her she called to warn her not to disclose her account details to anyone under any disguise. According to her, she did not suspect the caller because she kept warning her that if anybody asked for her Bank Verification Number or any of her bank details, she should not make the information available to the person. 

    Okpako said,

    “Somebody called me and she said she was calling from my bank. She said some people had been scamming some of their customers. She said they were trying to rectify something. She asked whether I had received any messages. I told him no. She said I should check my phone and send back the message they sent me to her“.

    I sent the number to her and I received another one. She said I was going to receive another message from the bank. And when I saw the message, it was from my bank. I did not suspect anything, as she kept on telling me that if anybody asked for my BVN and all that, I should not send it.

    Immediately after I sent that number, I started receiving debit alerts. That was how I knew I had been scammed. I rushed to my bank, but before I got there, all the N2.8m in my bank had been withdrawn. They transferred N200,000 multiple times to other accounts.

    “They also used N100,000 to recharge some telephone numbers. I opened the account just to save the money to start a new business.”

    She lamented that after all her efforts to block the account failed, the last money in her account was debited when she was asked to get a form before the account could be blocked.

    She added,

    They first directed me to go to court, and from there we went to the Police ‘A’ Division in Suleja to make a report. I gave up after going to court. The police and then the bank said they could not trace the numbers that all the money and airtime were sent. It was when I was trying to get a form that the last money was debited. Contacted, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, was not available for comment as of the time this report was filed.

  • Florida Woman Accused Of Defrauding 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Of Almost $3 Million

    Florida Woman Accused Of Defrauding 87-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Of Almost $3 Million

    On Wednesday, January 25th, a Florida woman was arrested for allegedly defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, The Guardian reported. “Today, we allege the defendant callously preyed on a senior citizen simply seeking companionship, defrauding him of his life savings,” said FBI assistant director Michael J Driscoll on the day of the arrest.

    The accused, Peaches Stergo, met the victim on a dating website in 2014, posing as a woman named “Alice Watson.” In 2017, the 38-year-old told the unnamed elderly man that she had won a lawsuit from a car accident she was in, and needed money to pay her lawyer in order to receive the settlement funds. Despite her never being a part of a suit, he wrote her a check of $25,000. Later, she told the victim that if she wasn’t given more money, the bank would freeze her account and prevent her from paying him back. She even disguised her voice to pose as a bank employee to facilitate the ruse.

    Within five years, Stergo received 62 checks totaling $2.8 million. The accused reportedly used the money to pay for several homes, cars, designer clothing, international trips, name brand clothing, jewelry, and gold and silver bars. While she and her husband were embracing a luxurious lifestyle, her victim lost his life savings and was forced to move out of his Manhattan home.

    Peaches Stergo has since been charged with one count of wire fraud. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.