my brother’s keeper

Woman's Late Brother Pays $217,000 To Online Scammers Now She's Facing Foreclosure

Woman's Late Brother Pays $217,000 To Online Scammers Now She's Facing Foreclosure

We’ve written these words too many times to count, but they obviously merit repeating once more: “Never co-sign a loan unless you are prepared and willing to pay back the entire thing — plus interest and penalties — if the other person defaults.” It’s a lesson a New Jersey woman has spent the last four years learning, and who now faces foreclosure because her dead brother was taken by scammers. [More]