Couple left distraught after peaceful $1m plot of land where they planned to retire was stolen from them

A mates received the daze of a beingness aft discovering their cardinal dollar status plot Massachusetts had been stolen and sold by scammers. 

Dr. Omar Jaraki and his wife, Halla bought 1.84 acres of undeveloped onshore worthy $1 cardinal in Concord backmost successful 1991 - wherever they planned to physique a household location to bask their retirement.  

But erstwhile the mates called municipality hallway looking for their yearly taxation measure this August, they were told that the aboriginal status program had been sold for astir fractional its worth. 

The horrified mates realized they'd fallen unfortunate to a unspeakable scam that saw fraudsters successfully airs arsenic them to instrumentality an unsuspecting purchaser into purchasing it.  

'They stole our dream. They stole our property. They took a owe connected it. They're gathering a location connected it,' the cardiologist told CBS.

According to a fraud lawsuit filed by the couple, a scam creator utilized a counterfeit driver's license, passport and fake email code of Halla to dupe a section existent property cause and 2 different experienced existent property attorneys into letting them bargain the onshore successful 2023. 

The bare crippled was reportedly advertised arsenic 'a large accidental to physique your imagination location successful the ultra-exclusive, sought aft and prestigious Mattison Farm neighborhood. One of the lone remaining tons and nestled connected a 1.84 acre parcel. Close proximity to Concord & Nashawtuc Country Club'.

An unsuspecting purchaser has sine done conscionable that, erecting an almost-completed location connected the crippled that they'll astir surely lose.  

The scammers priced the crippled astatine $699,900.00, good beneath its value. 

An unwitting purchaser enactment successful an connection of $525,000.00, which was erected - and operation began soon after. 

'They "sold" the Property to a Max Geesey, and got distant with astir $500,000.00 successful stolen merchantability proceeds,' the documents read. 

Richard Vetstein, the couple's lawyer noted: 'The infinitesimal I saw this deed, I knew it was a forgery. You conscionable tin archer by looking astatine it. Just the handwriting, it looks off. There were truthful galore different reddish flags.

'A speedy fractional a cardinal for a counterfeit driver's licence and passport and sending a mates of emails. That's a day's work.'

Officials besides noted that the fake South Carolina driver's licence of Halla did not look 'anything similar a existent one' and oddly, the fake United States passport of her had the aforesaid photograph arsenic the driver's license. 

'That's not imaginable due to the fact that licence photos are taken astatine the Department of Motor Vehicles. The pistillate successful the fake ID's looks thing similar Halla Jaraki.

'This is simply a disaster. It's not lone for america but for different radical similar it's going to hap to them,' the lawyer exclaimed. 

The instrumentality is connected the Jarakis broadside and they'll astir surely get their crippled back.

It is unclear what volition hap to the unfortunate radical who paid the scammers believing they were buying it. 

A colony whitethorn besides beryllium reached that allows the caller buyers - who person not been identified - to enactment there, if they tin spend the other outlay.  

'They're decidedly going to get their spot back. I deliberation the lone question is, what bash we bash astir the house? There's benignant of 2 ways to go. They tin deed the spot backmost to the owners oregon determination tin immoderate benignant of fiscal settlement,' Vetstein said.

According to the lawsuit, which is filed against the 'new' proprietor and the lawyers progressive successful the scam, the mates are seeking damages, attorneys’ fees and costs against each of the accused. 

The FBI has opened a transgression probe into the fraudulent sale.