Traffic Power, the search engine optimization company, had already earned a notorious reputation of employing “black hat” methods, and had been banned by Yahoo, Google and several other search engines. Now as this KVBC.com story reveals that the CEO of Traffic Power, Matt Marlon is accused being a foreclosure scam con artist. Reportedly some sixty homeowners believed that Marlon could help them from foreclosure. Although he never paid off the mortgage or purchase the homes, would get the real owners out of the houses on some pretext or the other and then rent the houses to tenants and then pocket the money, never assisting the homeowners.

At least sixty valley homeowners thought Marlon could help them. He offered to save them from foreclosure. “He would locate victims by doing a search of the public records on the Recorder’s Office (website) for notice of default that are recorded then contact the victims saying he was interested in purchasing your home,” Ellsworth explains.

“He’d come to the house with a notary in tow,” Ellsworth continues. “He’d give them documents saying he’d take care of everything. Take care of the payment, take care of paying off the mortgage and I’ll pay you some cash too. He’d have them sign a contract of sale.”

Despite how official the forms signed by the homeowners might look, Marlon didn’t really buy the house and he didn’t pay off the mortgage. “After he would get the rightful owners out of the house under false pretenses, he would put renters in the houses in many cases. And those people… my investigators talked to one renter who felt they were leasing to own,” Ellsworth said.

And he wasn’t just hurting homeowners. He actually scammed the Recorder’s Office. Anytime property is transferred from one buyer to another, there is a transfer tax of $2.50 per $500 of value. Investigators say Marlon never paid that tax. He used fake stock certificates to show the sales were exempt from the transfer tax.

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