Mortgage scheme costing Chesco woman her home

Nothing short of a miracle, it seems, will keep Melissa Miller in the house in Honey Brook, Chester County, that has been part of her family for more than a century. Despite her best efforts, it goes to sheriff’s sale Thursday.

The house is Miller’s home, but she has not owned it since 2006, when she tried to save it with an “unconventional refinancing” and ended up being scammed out of the legal title to the property.

Miller, 40, is one of 350 victims of a complicated mortgage-fraud scheme federal prosecutors have dubbed “Operation Homewrecker.”

Full story is availalble on Philadelphia Inquirer

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