Help: My House is Falling Into the Sea: True Crime Story of Insurance Fraud Number 17.

• Date: 14 February 2022
• Author: Zalma, Barry

Career criminals are not the only people who perpetrate insurance fraud. The temptation has become so great that almost anyone who is given the opportunity, will try. Those who do not premeditate insurance fraud are called perpetrators of soft frauds. Most are small. Some are not. The story that follows is a not a soft fraud but one that was premeditated for a great deal of money by a person who should have known better.

Some years ago, residents of a hillside community received a letter from the county engineer informing them that their houses sat on an active landslide. The...