Con artists circle over homeowners on the edge

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At the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, the phone calls come nearly every day from yet another financially desperate homeowner who's become the victim of a "foreclosure rescue" scam.
"This has become the No. 1 problem in terms of calls we're getting and cases we're filing," says Daniel Lindsey, supervising attorney for the foundation's Home Ownership Preservation Project.
And it's clearly a nationwide problem that's likely to get worse. The

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