Wells Fargo forecloses on home without a mortgage, seizes owners' possessions

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13. I suspect there is something more to this story, i.e. an opportunistic crime

The house was unoccupied (though furnished and filled with belongings) because the owners live in another city where the climate isn't so miserable during the summer. If you haven't been to Twentynine Palms, it's hot like Palm Springs only without as many interesting attractions.

I think someone who does dirty work for banks for a living somehow made this look like a mistake, when in fact they were just leveraging the absence of residents plus a foreclosure on a nearby home as an opportunity to commit a burglary.

Did Wells Fargo actually give their hired goons the wrong address? We may never know, but Wells Fargo is responsible for this crime.