cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/2219511
From the Atlanta Daily World:
Photo: Getty Images A 77-year-old Georgia man was forced out of his home and arrested after someone allegedly used fraudulent paperwork to claim ownership of the residence, WSB-TV reports. Charmaine and Charles Allman said they had been living in their home in Stone Mountain, Georgia for the past two decades until they were told earlier … Continued
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Sounds like it’s too fuckin easy to fake these documents and more needs to be done to verify this stuff before any action is taken.
That would require cops to do their jobs, something we know they refuse to fucking do.
When Charles Allman refused to leave his home, the 77-year-old was arrested on a Criminal Trespass warrant.
Pretty sure cops do the actual arresting, not the Clerk of the Superior Court.
In this case, not the cops; the Clerk of Superior Court instead.
Cops, Prosecutors, Courts. They’re all filled with idiot fucking bastards who don’t know how to do their fucking jobs.
EDIT: To be clear, I’m still right, because the police arrested him with a Criminal Trespass Warrant. So that means the court accepted the forged documents, and then went on to get a judge to sign a warrant to arrest this man. All cops, prosecutors, and courts are bastards.
Yeah. Just infuriating all around.
My city has a program you sign up for to be notified if anyone tries to file paperwork against your property.
The ironic thing (and what helps make it dystopian) is that one of the most reliable ways to avoid falling victim to this sort of scam is to not own your house free-and-clear, because mortgage companies pay attention to the records and would defend their interest.
In other words, there’s a “sucking you back into the debt system” angle here that might not be obvious at first.
I was going to say… if it’s that easy I need to forge the deed to my own house and clear my mortgage! :)
Find someone to swap houses with. Help each other out with the perfect crime. It’s victimless, and we all know how much that matters now.
Reminds me of when Bank of America foreclosed on a home they didn’t own and the homeowner owned free and clear of any other bank.
There’s more backstory to it then just the video of the aftermath of when BofA failed to pay the judgement from the court but essentially every checkpoint along the way rubberstamped the foreclosure process without actually doing what they were supposed to do. This seems to be the same case here.
Welp. That’s a new fear unlocked
