3 People Sought in Real Estate Fraud Scheme

The Miami-Dade trio pretended one was a Realtor. They lured victims to vacant houses, typically place “buyers” as a result of history checks and then asked for a down payment.

MIAMI – A woman and two gentlemen are becoming sought in link with a true estate fraud plan in Miami-Dade that has qualified a lot more than a dozen victims, authorities said.

Priscilla Marie Contreras, 32, Yordani Carriles Diaz, 43, and Deinoser Bravo, 47, are needed in relationship with the fraud scheme, Homestead Police officials mentioned Thursday.

Officials claimed Contreras would act as a Real estate agent and entice victims to vacant residences as a result of social media. The moment the victims ended up there, Diaz and Bravo would pose as property owners and perform cash transactions with the victims, officials claimed.

“In some cases they would go to the extent of having their victims go to a law enforcement section, get qualifications data, fill out paperwork, and then call them back and say, ‘You have been authorised, but we need to have some kind of down payment,’” Homestead Police Capt. Fernando Morales explained.

Law enforcement reported the team is associated in at minimum 8 scenarios in Homestead and about the exact same range in Miami-Dade County.

“The Homestead Law enforcement Section thinks that these topics are actively engaged in this fraud,” law enforcement said in a statement. “We want to inform the public to these topics and ideally keep away from further frauds.”

Just one target, a father of two, said he hoped to transfer into a household just after a extensive lookup for a spot to lease. The guy, who only preferred to be discovered by his initially name, Kenny, explained he furnished the team pay stubs, signed a lease settlement and compensated extra than $5,200 in a deposit.

“We observed the assets, we like the assets, we went by way of the total method,” Kenny mentioned. “We confirmed up with the truck, it was totally loaded. When we pulled up there were three other people, all in this article, absolutely everyone making an attempt to go in.”

Any person with info on the trio is asked to connect with Homestead Police at 305-247-1535 or Miami-Dade Criminal offense Stoppers at 305-471-Strategies.