![]() ![]() Many do get a discount, but some just lose their money,'' Mr Sims said. ![]() ''People are buying a voucher and the circumstances are such that they cannot actually redeem it, and therefore they just lose their money. The sites offer discount vouchers on goods and services - provided enough people sign up for the deal. Meanwhile, the ACCC and state consumer groups are receiving up to 140 complaints each month about group buying sites such as Groupon, Cudo, Spreets and Living Social, making it an area of urgent concern. Reach her at at 51, on Twitter at or on Facebook at /readerswatchdog.''We have looked at some of this and some websites are saying these are authentic consumer experiences, and we have got some concerns that they are not. Lee Rood's Reader's Watchdog column helps Iowans get answers and accountability from public officials, the justice system, businesses and nonprofits. Now they can buy a new house,” Kornya said. Securing the January judgment will help get them back on their financial feet. The Tourics were forced to sell their house. Attorneys said he disappeared before the judge levied damages against him. Later that year, a judge found Howe had “willingly and wantonly” violated a part of Iowa code aimed at protecting homeowners in foreclosure against fraud, misrepresentation and false promises.īut Howe never showed up in court. Now, time is running out for a Des Moines couple who battled to get it back Previously: He took the equity in their home. And to this day, I still can’t walk properly.” “When I woke up, I couldn’t walk with my own feet. “I stayed four months in the hospital,” she said. Through an interpreter, Muniba Toric told Watchdog in 2020 that the experience was so stressful that she was hospitalized and wound up in a coma for 15 days. Iowa Legal Aid attorneys became involved with the Torics after Howe tried to have them evicted from their home of 15 years in early 2018. ![]() And the Torics had had the misfortune of losing their first home during the Bosnian War. The Bosnian couple were among at least 14 homeowners across Des Moines, West Des Moines, Urbandale and Altoona who signed over their deeds to Howe in 20, according to court documents filed by Iowa Legal Aid. Muniba and Hasan Toric outside their then-Des Moines home in August 2020. Howe, owner of a custom motorcycle and parts business that had racked up 20 consumer complaints with the Iowa Attorney General's Office, was shifting his career at the time to real estate. “The court allowed him to sell the cryptocurrency and he did that.” How scammer tricked couple out of their Des Moines homeĪ Watchdog probe in September 2020 recounted how Howe had offered to rescue the Torics from foreclosure after they suffered financial hardships caused by health problems. “We had to come up with something, and it worked,” he said. In that case, the alternative asset was war bonds, he said. But Iowa Legal Aid used a 1945 case to argue it should be able to collect from defendants who defrauded others but hid their assets in a new form of property. Iowa’s law providing for the collection of judgments is dated and didn’t account for new kinds of assets like cryptocurrency. How 1945 case forced scammer to cash in cryptocurrency Kornya said the case could be useful for other lawyers in Iowa pursuing payment of court judgments. Our clients were in dire straits, and they had really been just scraping by,” said Alex Kornya, litigation director for Iowa Legal Aid. How Watchdog helped in 2021: Exposing contractors, connecting Iowans and tracking cannabis' future ![]()
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