John Fuller has lived in Houston’s Trinity Gardens neighborhood for more than 60 years and he’s fed up with its residents being preyed upon by criminals.

Fuller, 70, could talk all day about the crime he’s witnessed in broad daylight, but he’s troubled lately by the scams that he says are shrouded in secrecy, targeting his elderly, unsuspecting and trusting neighbors.

At least four Trinity Gardens property owners were victimized recently in a fraudulent property deed scheme in which a scammer pretended to own the properties he was selling, according to a lawsuit filed last month by Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee.

And the rightful property owners weren’t the only ones scammed; in some cases, buyers paid cash to the fraudster for homes he didn’t have the right to sell.

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