Police seek tips on fraud suspect

Costa Mesa police are asking for the public’s help to find a woman accused of defrauding people out of thousands of dollars, after attempts through her attorney at persuading the suspect to turn herself in failed, officials said Friday.

Vickie Khanhvi Dang, 28, is wanted on suspicion of grand theft for allegedly running a sham mortgage-adjustment firm out of an office on Anton Boulevard in Costa Mesa.

Since October 2008, Dang promoted her business on local Vietnamese radio stations, Police said. Dang’s “business” would offer to adjust loans or consolidate debts if they paid 50% of the fees up front, police said. Not only was the high-percentage up-front cost against the law, police said, but over and over again the company wouldn’t do anything in exchange for the payments.

Police said Dang, who also goes by the aliases Khanh Nguyen, Vickie Nguyen and Vi Nguyen, operated the fake business under several different names over the years.

The same empty space on the fourth floor of an office building at 575 Anton Blvd. has been known as the Gonzalez Law Group; the Laurel Capital Group Inc.; the Alliance Law Group; and Dinh & Associates, PC, among other business names.

Granted a search warrant, Costa Mesa detectives and investigators from the Orange County district attorney’s real estate fraud unit emptied the office Wednesday of victims’ records and anything that could implicate Dang.

Costa Mesa police have issued a $100,000 warrant for Dang’s arrest.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to call investigator Sheila Cannan at (714) 754-5294.