Mortgage scam leaves angry customers, evades regulators By WILL EVANS | CALIFORNIA WATCH | NOV. 27, 2010 Lydia Prado has cleaned my parents’ Mission Viejo house every other week since I was about 8 years old. In August, Lydia confided to my mother that she’d given money to a man who’d promised to help save her small Santa Ana home from foreclosure. My mother called me, worried. Lydia, she knew, had been scammed before. I offered to look into it. A project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch is generously supported by the  California Endowment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: • Support with an online donation • Subscribe to RSS feeds • Follow us on Twitter • View videos on Blip.tv • Be our friend on Facebook CALIFORNIA WATCH: • Support with an online donation • Subscribe to RSS feeds • Follow us on Twitter • View videos on Blip.tv • Be our friend on Facebook Center for Investigative Reporting 2130 Center St. Suite 103 · Berkeley, CA 94704 p: 510.809.3160 · f: 510.849.1813 · e: center@cironline.org w: www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org

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