Four months ago 17 News reported on a local family that fell victim to a foreclosure scam. That family says an attorney promised to save their home so they gave him $10,000. Now the Attorney General’s Office stepped in and says the local family is just one of thousands victimized.

After he lost the fight against foreclosure, Eddy Herrera and his family moved into a south Bakersfield apartment.

“It wasn’t big enough for everybody so everybody had to go their own way,” Herrera said.

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