Houston YouTuber Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Real Estate Scam

YouTuber Mikki Lynn Fox Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Real Estate Scam

A Houston judge sentenced a woman to serve five years in prison for reportedly duping investors out of $130,000 through a real estate scam.

Mikki Lynn Fox, 41, pleaded guilty to aggregate theft for scamming eight investors and her followers in a sketchy real estate deal.

According to ABC 13, Fox is known on YouTube as a lifestyle and dating consultant plus influencer Micheala Pink and Summer Black. The Harrison County Attorney’s Office said in their report how Fox manipulated people from Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and California into multiple types of fraudulent real estate investments between March 2015 and July 2020.

 

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Some victims included the parents of children who played baseball with Fox’s kids in Houston. She would ask the victims to invest $35,000 to help her purchase a home to flip and claimed it would sell quickly. Additionally, she promises to return their principal investment plus a share of the profits.

“This defendant used her online platform to gain the trust of unsuspecting victims and steal tens of thousands of dollars of their hard-earned money. Thieves are crafty and clever in coming up with new ways to commit their crimes, and we will use every means at our disposal to stop them,” said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.

Fox reportedly told her followers that they would earn an income if an investment into a “flipped house” was made but they never saw a penny.

As months went by, Fox reported gave the investors a different story when the properties were not listed on the market and later ignored their call. Investigators also noted Fox never paid back any of the victims because she spent the money.