Video: You’ve heard of identity theft. How about home theft?

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Consumer columnist David Lazarus helps an 80-year-old woman who learned that four fictitious business names had been registered to her address by a man she didn’t know. ‘It’s very frightening,’ she said. ‘I’m a single woman who lives alone.’ Here’s what Lazarus has learned so far.