Pakistani beauty queen flees US after defrauding 100 US families in loan modification scam
Rita Sharma
Mar. 31, 2012

Saman Hasnain, who won the 2008 Mrs Pakistan World beauty pageant, and her husband Jawad, have been accused of duping South Bay, California, homeowners into giving them money for a loan-modification scam which they operated from 2008 until October 2010.

The money ripped off from clients was used to buy plastic surgery for Saman, and pay for a Mercedes and the mortgage on their USD 2.2 million home. The couple charged homeowners at least USD 4,500 and often more to renegotiate their mortgages with banks.

Korina Diaz, a Gilroy waitress who lost her ranch after paying the couple USD 11,500 to lower her mortgage payments, told Mercury News: "She was really pretty. She wore a skirt suit, high heels, nylons - like a real good-looking professional lady."

After the scam came to light, the Santa Clara County deputy district attorney charged them with ripping off 17 people, a number which doesn''t even come close to the real number of victims, Chen told the media. "The biggest crooks in this county aren''t holding people up with a gunżIt's the ones ripping people off with a pen or a computer and stealing their life's savings. So many good people's lives were ruined by these defendants," Chen said. He believes the couple defrauded around 80 to 100 families. But before they could be apprehended, the couple fled the US with their two young sons to Lahore. American officials said there was little they could do now as Pakistan has no extradition arrangement with the US.

Pakistani beauty queen flees US after defrauding 100 US families in loan modification scam
Rita Sharma
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