Criminal Syndicate Exposed: Identity Theft, Property Fraud, and Systemic Corruption in Oregon

HACKED: THE SAGA #49 Date: July 27, 2025 Duration: 29:54
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Episode Summary

In this explosive episode, Carla details her ongoing battle with a criminal syndicate that has been impersonating her, hacking her email accounts, and stealing her identity for months. The situation escalates when criminals steal her phone containing an authenticator app from a shelter, revealing collusion with facility staff.

Simultaneously, she uncovers a massive property fraud scheme targeting the Stroschine family in Stayton, Oregon, where criminals are attempting to steal property through fraudulent foreclosure proceedings that may have contributed to the original owner’s death.

📍 Key Moments

19:29 "You won't believe what happened when I went to the DA's office"
20:06 "They actually asked if stealing a house is a crime"
20:46 "Even the FBI won't investigate documented cybercrime evidence"
24:11 "This criminal network has been operating for nearly a decade"
25:29 "The phone theft revealed the collusion I suspected all along"
28:06 "Two major platforms confirmed they see different data than I do"

Detailed Show Notes

Hi, I’m Carla with Raised to Walk. So this is the exciting thing that happened today.

Criminal Identity Theft Discovery: [00:00:00 – 00:03:00]

I was mentioning some losers—literally this criminal syndicate that has been operating, impersonating me in my businesses. I realized this when I found a Google family group on Google and it had multiple people on there. One of them was Phil Tallon at HBU—his domain name or his email address at HCU. Then there was one for Seth Myers which I don’t think was actually his—I think it was somebody impersonating him.

There were two of mine, which confirmed to me that they had somehow hacked my DNS and they were using the mail through Green Geeks, the hosting for that. Because I didn’t have those obviously, the people who had control over that I think were Jason Smith and Annie Nardone, just because they had shared other emails or they had shared documents on my Google Drive trying to make it seem like I was still involved with the journal or something.

I have not had anything to do with An Unexpected Journal since August 2024 when I resigned from the board. And then in September, I saw that they had automatically added or somehow some folders for the journal had been automatically added to my personal drive. They didn’t have anything in them, but they were added.

It’s just been non-stop. The other person was Brooks Harrison with his work email address, which I know him—I would not have added him to a family group. I had actually contacted him about this problem back in 2023 and I talked to him about the Afghans.

My stream where I said “when the authorities gaslight you“— I was referring to somebody that I had given the FBI down in Salem their phone number to call them. I could tell that the person that was answering the phone and responding was not him because it told a completely different story. That was Brooks Harrison. I had given them that phone number.

I had been able to tell from my last contact that they had basically commandeered his email too and somebody else was using it. Those were the emails on that family group. I deleted it. So then began this whole little thing about trying to get access to my emails again.

Email System Infiltration and Response:  [00:03:00 – 00:08:00]

The last one that I saw—they had gotten access. I had blocked them out of my domain [emails]. I know that they had basically bribed somebody at Simonka to get the backup codes out of the folder in my backpack where I have it. I carry it around with me everywhere because literally I turn my back and I’ve had things stolen out of my backpack.

I cleaned up the DNS so they couldn’t be faking emails through my domains pretending to be me. I’m thinking I have it all cleared out, right? Then this last week I noticed that there had been a hack on my Fastmail because that’s where my email’s hosted to.

It was not me and it was on the 20th, a week ago. The only place I had been was at Salem Alliance and I’d been at Simonka Place. Either somebody had a corrupted device that they were hacking me through—which has happened before, I can tell this by the way that my iPad starts clicking—they’ve sent kids behind me with compromised devices to basically be a relay to hack my stuff.

But I think what it was—I checked in at Salem Alliance on their app and there’s been weird things that have happened with that before. I can’t be sure about it, but anyway, I uninstalled the app. I’ve just been using Fastmail through my browser.

Phone Theft and Shelter Corruption: [00:08:00 – 00:12:00]

This morning I get up and my shirt was laying there—it hadn’t been there the night before. Besides that, it looked like somebody had gotten into and completely gone through all my stuff. I have an organizer in there because it was all just unorganized.

I go up front and Brenda [the case manager] is like, “Well, the only reason somebody would ever be able to get in is if you gave them the code because staff—nobody else has the code,” which is a bunch of BS. I’ve had people in and out of my locker. I didn’t give anybody the code. So if that’s the only way they can get it, then obviously a staff member gave it to somebody.

There’s so much that I actually have documented proof about. I am so—you’ve got to be kidding me. I actually left my backpack sitting there.[1]

Somebody stole my phone with the Authenticator app for everything that I have. Every single account I have, I have an authenticator app. Stole it out of my backpack. So I tweeted about it.

Here’s the deal. I’m guessing when I go back and walk into Simonka, suddenly it’s just going to be found somewhere. This is what I’m guessing will happen. But I know that there was collusion because they changed the password. They had the phone—had given it to somebody and they had already changed passwords. They’re already accessing my accounts.

Where it’s at right now—I was already logged into Cloudflare because I’m moving my domains off of Green Geeks, which has been hacked literally at a server level since I moved [my sites] there. This has been the third web host where [server-level attacks have] happened. I was hoping authorities would actually do something about it because I’ve been reporting Green Geeks over that. Authorities haven’t done squat.

I’m in the process of migrating everything. I guess that’s freaking them out that they won’t have the ability to screw me anymore because they’ve been throttling my domains. If you go to my site, raisedtowalk.org, they’re throttling access or controlling access based off of IP address.

There’s a screen that will come up—it’s to Green Geeks. It’s either Green Geeks or they’re hacking through Let’s Encrypt. That’s where the SSL certificate [for the site is hosted]. Depending on the IP address, they’ll sometimes throttle it and they block it. [The DNS is] already served through Cloudflare. There’s no reason for a second throttle.

I’ve been working on that. I already had the Cloudflare [dashboard] open, which is serving my DNS. Right at this moment, there is nothing. There’s no emails that can come through. If those jackasses think they’re going to hack my Fastmail account and impersonate me, they’re going to screw themselves.

I removed all the [email MX)] authorizations from the DNS settings. They cannot impersonate me. Nobody is going to be getting any [emails]. If I’m not going to be able to use my emails, nobody else is going to be able to use them.

Property Fraud Investigation: [00:12:00 – 00:16:00]

The other thing that they did—this is a criminal syndicate. You know that sheriff sale where the people were hiding behind the column, the bidders, after it was delayed? Well, there’s that second sale that was postponed, which when I looked at it a couple days ago, they still hadn’t updated the website that it was going to be postponed and for sale tomorrow.

I know there’s a connection because they were blocking my access. They were blocking my access, cutting off my access. I have pictures of people. There was a woman came and just sat down by me on the bench like we were together, which we’re not. I moved because I can tell that as soon as she sits down my internet is starting to be disrupted. I have this on video.

When the bidding supposedly was going to start and they go—this is the first time at 10:00 before they postpone it—she goes up and stands by the steps and then she goes up and she’s talking to the two people with the sheriff’s office. I have this on video. She’s talking to them and then they’re like, “Oh, we’re just going to delay it for an hour.”

I have a picture of her at the courthouse. I have her on video and she’s going up and talking to the sheriff’s people. I also noticed that she was at the Ike Box when I was there meeting what I thought was somebody from Ron Wyden’s office. Who knows? It could have been someone impersonating somebody. I have a picture of her there.

She was there when I came out of the courthouse when I was looking up the records this past week. I have to go back and compare, but I do have a picture of somebody that was at Panera Bread when I got my last burner phone that I was trying to be able to get so I could actually make a phone call without it being interrupted. I’m pretty sure it was the same woman. I had multiple pictures of her.

I am positive that the people running it—it’s a criminal syndicate. I don’t know what you call them. Mafia, whatever. It’s a criminal syndicate that’s stealing that house. The same people that have been trying to steal my identity and impersonating me. There’s connections there.

Foreclosure Fraud Evidence: [00:16:00 – 00:20:00]

I went into the courthouse. When I went through the court records, I also went back a couple days later and I went into the county clerks, which is over here. There’s the downtown transit center and then the building right up next to it—they have the county clerk. That’s where elections are at or you get marriage certificates, register to vote. But they also have a row of computers.

I went in there on Friday and people were talking—their website was down. You couldn’t access it online, but you could access it in the county clerks. I was doing research on it and I went back to it.

It looks like that property [on Fern Ridge Road] was originally partitioned off in 1975. It’s family property. I had mentioned that the man who was the heir that was trying to settle everything—it was a fourth-generation property.

Those jackasses have—it looks like they’ve been trying to steal that property for a decade. I went and I looked through what they foreclosed on. It wasn’t even a valid mortgage. From what I’m seeing, it looks like that first mortgage—he may have bought it from family off a land sales contract.

[The owner] got a loan in 2007 through SunTrust Mortgage. Then he got another loan. It looked like he refinanced a year later and it says on there that it had been free of all liens and encumbrances. So they paid off that first loan and refinanced. But it’s that first loan from SunTrust Mortgage that they foreclosed on.

They had the first mortgage—looks like maybe got a line of credit or something and there’s been all these assignments of that first one. You have this one loan, this one second mortgage, and then they basically assigned it twice to two different processors.

He’s probably paying on one over here. And then there’s this whole other supposed—they basically doubled on paper the amount of debt. The things that they’re saying that they supposedly foreclosed on that has been running since 2020—those don’t even look to me like they’re valid debts.

Just looking at that court document, that 2020 foreclosure sale— this makes total sense now. There were documents in there from this loan that was for Washington County, which this is Marion. There were all the way down there. Multiple, multiple red flags.

That’s why they’re hiding behind a corner. I don’t know what you call this, deed washing or whatever, but they basically stole that house. Not only that, but they’ve altered—if you go and look in the county clerk, there were two transfers where they didn’t even have the owner name on there.

On this last mortgage, because there had been all these notices— there’s a valid debt and then there’s all these fake ones, these duplicates. One had the primary mortgage—they had already paid it off in 2008. Then the second, it was basically a duplicate and they kept transferring it over and over and over again to all these different processing companies, sometimes literally two recordings on the same day.

Even if you could keep track of it, it’s like one after another. They started sending foreclosure notices back in 2018. Well, you know what also started in 2018? I was looking at this—this man died in 2022. There was one of the charges against the estate from an ambulance company where he had a whole long string of ambulance rides starting in 2018.

I am positive that the stress of all this killed him.

Now these criminals, this criminal syndicate is trying to steal the inheritance of the heirs because they’ve been after this property, it looks like, since 2016. There are quit claim deeds like fake deeds—a quit claim deed, a bargain and sale deed. It looks like a fake probate on there.

That’s where they’re hiding behind by the corner. I know it’s related. They’re trying to steal my access to all my emails, my identities. Whatever. It’s like they think I’m not going to say something.

I’m going to file a police report. I honestly don’t care at this point. This crap has been literally happening since probably the beginning of the year. I actually had a—I went and looked back at some of my notes, my comments. I actually had a positive view of Simonka Place. Then I’ve had mail stolen. I’ve had people in and out of my stuff.

The things that they steal— somebody gets bribed, give them a gift card and they’ll basically do whatever.

I posted this on Twitter again. I’m assuming that I’ll go back in and suddenly it’s going to be suddenly there. Even if it’s not, I was able to finally get control over that Fastmail account. I don’t know if they’re thinking I’m just going to sit there and let them impersonate me after I know what they’re doing. No, not going to happen.

I would have been doing this through Restream, but that’s another thing I have on the authenticator app. The phone with the authenticator app to log into Restream was stolen. I have a backup code for the login. It didn’t work though. I don’t know what that was about.

I was going to go to— this is going to have to be one of my little things that I do every day. I’m going to have to check my Google account to make sure that nobody’s hacked access in there because when I looked in the middle of this week when they were hacking my iPad, they gave access to a Mac. I don’t use freaking Macs. There were two Macs signed in. I had three before when I—there were two already signed in.

Just a reminder, there’s a sheriff sale supposedly of this two-something like a two million, one million two to million dollar property at the Marion County Courthouse at 10 a.m. If anybody wants to show up, I’m kind of wondering if the reason that their website was down is because somebody was trying to block people from doing research on it. I don’t know.

This is like the most what the heck. You’re not going to believe this, but this is a true story. I was at the county clerk’s on Friday, right? I go in there and I actually printed some of the things out that just made it very, very obvious that what they were doing is they’re basically stealing that house. It’s fraud. They foreclosed on loans that didn’t even exist or shouldn’t have existed. They did at one time, but they had already been satisfied. The one, the other one was just a duplicate of an original.

Law Enforcement Failure: [00:20:00 – 00:24:00]

The Marion County DA is one floor above the county clerk. I get that stuff, go up the elevator, walk in and it says it’s crime victims. I walk in there and I said, “Hey, I’d like to make a report.” This person comes up there and she’s like—they have an investigative office up there—she goes, “Oh, well, this is just my fourth day there. I’m not really sure what they…” because I said that there was deed washing. “I’m not really sure if we do that.”

This other woman comes up, I guess the person that’s been there before, and she’s like, “Well, is that fraud? Is that a crime?” Is stealing a freaking house a crime? You steal a TV? Oh yeah, we acknowledge that that’s a crime, but you steal an entire house and you have to wonder if that’s a crime.

What is wrong with this state? I’ve had Joshua Mitchell at the Woodburn Police Department tell me that hacking is not a crime. I went up to the Portland FBI office and talked to Brendan Parenti and he said what I was describing didn’t rise to the level of the investigation when afterwards I see press releases from the FBI Twitter account talking about things that I had reported in that 200-page report.

I go down to the Salem office, talk to Craig who won’t give me his last name because he told me doesn’t have to, who is hostile to me the entire time. He tells me that Salem Health, the hospital, can falsify my medical records, that the FBI don’t do anything with identity theft and I’m going to have to get an attorney basically to sue them before they do anything.

None of this is civil. These are crimes. I’ve talked to four different police departments about different things like that. Has anybody done anything? No.

Then I go into the DA’s office when it’s very obvious— this is what I was going to say. That sale that was on Monday, number one, the man who it’s against—the county clerk is supposed to send out a notice. The address was wrong so he would not be receiving those emails. I checked the newspaper association’s online database. It’s not there. That notice is not there.[2]

Either it didn’t get uploaded— either Justin with the Keizertimes did not upload it or it was deleted from the association database. That man, probably the heir that’s living there, probably doesn’t even know this house has been sold out from underneath him.

I go into the DA’s office and they’re like they’re not sure if that’s a crime. They say, “Oh, you have to file a report with the police. You can go to any department and do that.” Everybody’s kicking the ball somewhere else. Meanwhile, the criminals are given free reign.

It’s almost like the state has been sold to the criminals and nobody posted the sale notice.

Community Call to Action: [00:24:00 – 00:26:00]

I’m going to do that. But if anybody is in Stayton because that’s where the property is and you know the Stroschine family—I graduated from North Marion High School in 1987. Small high school. Graduated with a class of a hundred. We played Stayton and it’s pretty similar. Small town, everybody knows everybody or even if you don’t know everybody, you know of them.

Here’s the deal. The authorities I’ve reported this to have been the spot. I will report it to a police department and we’ll see if they open up a case at the DA’s office because they’re uncertain whether or not mortgage fraud and stealing properties is a crime. That’s a little bit a gray area here, the state of Oregon.

If you’re in Stayton, this is your community. These are your neighbors. I don’t think that Thomas Stroschine even knows that that property has been sold. I’m here in Keizer. I don’t know him or the family, but there are people who do.

These criminals think they won. Next time it’s going to be maybe you whose house they’re trying to steal, whose inheritance that they’re taking. If you want to protect your community, you need to be raising a fit over this. Somebody needs to go and help that family and give them some backup because they have been fighting off this horde of thieves, it looks to me like, for close to a decade. They started this in 2016 trying to steal this house.

They need some help. They do. The criminals aren’t acting on their own. They have a whole network. They have people paid off in different places. They have a whole team that are attacking like parasitic vultures on this family.

If anybody knows the Stroschines, please go out and help them. If anybody’s around Salem at 10 o’clock in the morning tomorrow, go see what happens with that sheriff sale. I haven’t even had time to go and look up what the deal is on that.

Systemic Technology Infiltration: [00:26:00 – 00:29:50]

People—I think what it was, I think I freaked people out because I had my phone and devices off pretty much all day on Friday, so they couldn’t track me. I don’t know if they were going through all my stuff to see—I don’t know what they would think I would have.

I think they hit the motherlode by stealing my phone, the authenticator app. What you did was out yourself and confirm the collusion between the criminals and Simonka Place.

That’s how I knew that my parents and my family were in collusion with the criminals because they got into my Cloudflare account. Same thing. The only way they would have been able to do that is with the app, with the authenticator on my phone which they did not have, or codes out of my notebook. That’s how I knew that my family was involved in that.

Like I said, why people think that I wouldn’t say something— all you did is out yourself. Yeah, you’ve stolen more of my time. But yeah, you don’t get to impersonate me anymore.

That’s what I’m going to be doing pretty much all day is trying to get control of my accounts again. And then I have to move all my sites so these jackasses can’t screw me anymore.

This is the other thing that they did. They’re doing like two layers of—they’re hacking profiles or systems and they’re putting like double, basically like dual accounts. I’ve mentioned that they’ve been doing that to Amazon. I can’t get that 832 number off my Efusion Media account because I don’t know—I even contacted support with Amazon. They can’t figure it out.

I contacted Ingram Spark because I have a picture of all of my titles that I have published through them—they were showing this warning graphic on it. This big long conversation and they basically said, “Oh yeah, well we’ve refreshed yours.” They said they have proof that there’s two versions of what I see and what they see. The two don’t line up.

Even on my Fastmail account, I had my original account. I had paid, renewed it, paid the monthly bill for it, and it’s showing as “your account is overdue.” Contact Fastmail. They said, “Oh, yeah, you’re showing that it’s two.” What’s showing on my screen and what’s showing on their screen is two different things.

They’re also doing that with my PayPal account. I noticed like on PayPal it said—if you have a charge or something it will say what the company is. Somehow, this isn’t from me—this was before they had gotten the authenticator app. They changed that. So it said Carla and then Sallee and then San Jose, like I’m in San Jose, California, which I’m not. And then it said Cause.

But when I looked on my account that I can see that I logged in, it does not say that. It says Legacy Marketing on the account information. What I see is the information on the account—somehow is two different things.

They’re hacking at a system level. Like I said, I think this is weaponized AI and they’re hacking companies. It’s not just me. It’s not just my little businesses and accounts. They’re literally doing massive sabotage and fraud and theft on all these major systems. That’s what I see.

That was the excitement for today and I’m just going to go and let’s see what happens next.


Endnotes

⚠️ Post-stream Note

[1] I would just like to note that after I left my family’s home on October 7, 2024, after I had conclusive confirmation that my family was part of the plot against me (see Unfakeable), the first place I went — apart from continuing to send updates to Oregon Crimestoppers and the U.S. Marshals — was the Center for Hope and Safety.As I have contact various agencies in the months since, a repeated question I have received when telling them just a part of my story is “have you contacted the Center for Hope and Safety?” If someone contacts the Oregon Department of Human Services as a victim of domestic violence, they only qualify for help if they have a child under the age of 18 in the home, which I do not.

However, apparently, the Center for Hope and Safety received a grant to help victims of domestic violence that do not qualify for services otherwise.

I called the Center for Hope and Safety in Salem, Oregon on Saturday, October 12th, 2024. I told the person who answered the hotline my story. She said she would see what they could do and would call me back. After several hours, she called me back and said they couldn’t do anything for me that day, but gave me the address of Safe Sleep in Salem and Simonka Place in Keizer and made an appointment for me to come into the center the following Monday.

That night, I walked into Simonka Place and Janie (who no longer works there) let me sleep on the chapel floor. On Sunday night, I went to SafeSleep. Keep in mind that my phone is mirrored and that I know that I am being tracked and hacked. I know for a fact that a woman came in after me and spoke to someone solely to identify me when I was there.

I wore a mask while I slept that night. The next morning, my backpack, which was sitting at the end of my bed, was unzipped and the N95 mask was down around my chin. I had been gassed in the middle of the night. I remember smelling it in the middle of the night. When I later looked through my things, I saw that the documents that my family had stolen out of my binder — which I had reported to the Woodburn Police the previous Monday (October 7th) — had been returned and placed in a folder that I had just checked the day before. (This is a continuing pattern. I identify a theft, and then it will “reappear” somewhere other than where I put it to try to make it seem like I just misplaced it.)

I had an appointment with a “case worker” at the Center for Hope and Safety on Monday, October 14th. I shared my story and my circumstances. The “help” I received was a referral to Simonka Place, the use of the center’s phone to call Simonka Place, and a day bus pass to get there.

At Simonka Place, the “friends” and family who have been hacking, stalking, attacking me, and doing everything they can to steal my identity bribed people to get information on me, to go through my things, to get back-up codes to my accounts so they could continue to impersonate me using my own domain emails and hack my sites, and to get phone ID information  to continue to block my communications. I have had mail sent to Simonka Place stolen, including not one, but two debit cards tied to processing accounts. One of which was activated and charges were attempted against.

I could go on all day with the continuous attacks that occurred at Simonka Place. A referral to Simonka Place was the extent of The Center for Hope and Safety’s “help.”

If anyone finds themselves in a similar situation, my advice is to go anywhere but there.

[2] When I checked the Newspaper Publishers Association for the legal notice for the sheriff’s sales, they were not in the database. I told Robin Barney, the advertising and office manager of the Keizertimes, the legal notices for the sales later showed up online; however, that was post-sale. The notices were not in the database immediately after the sale. As the Keizertimes

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    💬 Discussion Questions

    Criminal Identity Theft Discovery

    • How can individuals protect themselves from sophisticated email impersonation schemes?
    • What red flags should people watch for when discovering unauthorized accounts in their name?
    • How effective are current DNS security measures against determined criminal networks?

    Email System Infiltration and Response

    • What steps should individuals take when they discover their hosting provider has been compromised?
    • How can people verify the security of apps they use for check-ins at facilities?
    • Is completely locking down email systems an effective response to ongoing attacks?

    Property Fraud Investigation

    • What research tools can citizens use to investigate suspicious property transactions?
    • How can families protect generational property from sophisticated fraud schemes?
    • What warning signs indicate a property might be targeted for fraudulent foreclosure?

    Law Enforcement Failure

    • Why might multiple law enforcement agencies avoid investigating documented crimes?
    • What can citizens do when official channels fail to address criminal activity?
    • How can communities hold their local authorities accountable for investigating crimes?

    Community Call to Action

    • What role should neighbors play in protecting each other from organized crime?
    • How can small communities organize against sophisticated criminal networks?
    • What resources exist for families fighting fraudulent legal proceedings?

    Systemic Technology Infiltration

    • How can individuals verify that what they see in their accounts matches reality?
    • What implications does “weaponized AI” have for personal and corporate security?
    • How can people protect themselves when major platforms may be compromised?

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    Carla Alvarez is the founder of Raised to Walk and a founding board member of An Unexpected Journal, a Communications Director at Legacy Marketing Services where she uses her BS in Marketing to create communication strategies for business, and an unlikely case manager and Bible Study teacher for the Afghan Christians of Kabul Hope Latest Series: Hacked: the Saga How an oily politician and a band of intellectual property and identity thieves conspired to erase a third-grade Sunday school teacher, Read more of her work on Google Scholar and Substack or contact her to write for you.

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