The phone call came on a Tuesday morning, and it would bring down an empire. Maria Santos was scrolling through rental listings when she saw it: a beautiful three-bedroom house, rent-to-own, "bad credit okay." She dialed the number immediately. What happened next trapped Maria in an $1,100 nightmare—and she was just one of over 700,000 victims caught in what federal investigators now call the largest credit repair fraud in American history. After 17 years as a Board Certif