Ohioans struggling to save their homes from foreclosure are now the targets of a new scam surfacing on the Internet. Website ads are popping up from companies pretending to be associated with the government foreclosure prevention initiative Save the Dream Ohio, Attorney General Richard Cordray warned today in conjunction with the Ohio Department of Commerce and the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

Save the Dream Ohio’s real website, www.SaveTheDream.Ohio.gov, lists Ohio.gov at the top of

Barbara Lynnae Puro, 47, Savage, Minnesota, a real estate agent, was charged in the District of Minnesota by Information with participating in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud scheme that victimized lenders across the country. Puro allegedly arranged for homeowners to sell their properties to straw buyers at inflated prices. In each case, she then purportedly