Michelle Ruddy owns a vacant plot of land in Asbury Park.  From time to time, she gets inquiries about whether she would like to sell it. But she’s stuck, saying she’d like to build on it someday. Imagine the shock when she got a call from a lawyer who handled the closing of the land sale. “She asked me if I was Michelle Ruddy. I said yes. She said, ‘I want to make sure I mail your check for the sale of your property to the correct address,'” Ruddy said. “I hung up the phone thinking it was a hoax.”  But it was not a hoax. It was a sophisticated fraudulent attempt to steal money from the sale.  Click below for the rest of the story.

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