{"id":327397,"date":"2026-07-02T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:12:08","slug":"woman-has-her-driveway-stolen-from-her-florida-home-as-part-of-nigerian-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327397\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman has her driveway stolen from her Florida home as part of Nigerian scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida woman had her driveway ripped up and taken away as part of an alleged scam<\/a> carried out by someone in Nigeria, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Luz Lenzi returned to her home in Sanford, about 30 miles north of Orlando, in February to find a mountain of rubble where her driveway once was<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t hire them, I didn\u2019t need to have my driveway redone,\u201d Lenzi told News 6. <\/a><\/p>\n

Police say someone claiming to be from a real estate company hired a contractor to update the driveway. However, the contractor abruptly stopped working on the driveway when a $15,000 check provided to pay for the job bounced.<\/p>\n

The check was written by New Mexico-listed company \u201cSOIL Realty LLC,\u201d which investigators later tracked back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

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A Florida woman\u2019s driveway was ripped up and taken away as part of an alleged scam, according to a report (Google Maps)<\/p>\n

Authorities said the contractor did not meet with the client and did not file a permit to do the work on the driveway.<\/p>\n

However, police uncovered the true origin of the scam by tracing bank transactions and Google records tied to an email address used in the deal, leading them to internet addresses in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, Nigeria, like in Africa? And he said, yes,\u201d Lenzi recalled. \u201cI said, how? I was shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear how the alleged scammer would have benefited from the deal.<\/p>\n

However, investigators believe they may have been trying to shake down the contractor for money. They also believe Lenzi\u2019s home may have been selected because it is on the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a loser in the whole thing,\u201d Lenzi said.<\/p>\n

At first, the contractor refused to fix the driveway, saying that the company was also a victim. However, they eventually reimbursed Lenzi for her repairs, she said.<\/p>\n

The contractor declined to comment to News 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman had her driveway ripped up and taken away as part of an alleged scam carried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,135264,51353],"class_list":["post-327397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-luz-lenzi","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}