INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has issued a warning to Indiana homeowners about scams involving mortgage-relief services.

Here’s how the scam works. A business or individual reaches out to you offering mortgage-relief services or help with foreclosure.

They typically will ask for a fee up front by promising to lower payments or save your home, but then they do not deliver.

I-Team 8 spoke with Chase Haller, section chief of the Homeowner Protection Unit at the Indiana Attorney General’s Office.

“It’s important for people to realize that when there’s a foreclosure filing that’s actually public record, an...