The Clay County Sheriff’s Office has opened a fraud investigation after an Orange Park woman said she was scammed out of what she thought was her new Middleburg home.
Melissa Antolik said she showed up last Sunday to move into the four-bedroom home in the Orange Park South neighborhood, with a set of house keys and a lease in her hand. Antolik told us her current lease at her Orange Park home ends on the last day of February, so she had been frantically working to have the money to put down on a new home for her fiancé, two kids, and two foster children.
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Antolik said she showed up to the new house and saw that the front door had been damaged. Assuming it was kicked in, she called the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. After they responded to investigate, Antolik said another family showed up at the house, with their own lease. Clay County deputies then told the two families that their leases were fake and the person who drafted them wasn’t the true owner of the house.
Antolik told us she spent around $3,400 on a deposit, moving fees, and utilities for the new home, only to find out that she had been scammed…