Scammers from Miami tricked into a $ 10 million loan from a bank

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Two scammers from Miami-Dade, Florida, pleaded guilty in a federal court for capturing a fraud that cost the bank $ 10 million.

48-year-old Michel Cabrera and 39-year-old Pelia Melian committed mortgage fraud to get money from the bank. The maximum penalty for such actions includes 30 years in prison, writes Miami Herald.

Another 2 person suspected of colluding with Cabrera and Melian is accused of colluding with the intent of Internet fraud and in several cases of such fraud. They are awaiting trial in their cases.

Cabrera has used 5 apartments for crime and 1 house in Florida. The scheme began with a false application for a loan to the bank Washington Mutual; each of the applications written by fraudsters contained at least 1 clause, where they indicated false data.

Washington Mutual approved the loan and sent the funds to Cabrera's Florida company. The scammers used part of this money to make a down payment on real estate, and divided the rest among themselves.

For example, in a mortgage application for one of the apartments, Cabrera told the bank that one of her associates had paid $ 2,3 million of the “first installment” from her pocket. Washington Mutual sent her the rest of the money, which, according to the price of the apartment, was $ 4,27 million. Of this amount, the fraudsters paid the first installment of $ 2,3 million and disappeared with the remaining $ 1,9 million.

Melian used his mother as a fake buyer of one of the penthouses. A woman allegedly bought property for $ 3,8 million in 2010. Bank JP Morgan Chasewho bought Washington Mutual after bankruptcy in 2008 year, later confiscated this property for failure to pay the loan and sold it for $ 900 thousand.

Several similar schemes with different fake buyers were tested.

After receiving the money and paying the down payment, the fraudsters did not make any payments on the loan, simply appropriating the rest of the money.

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