An elderly Georgian landlord is forced to leave and is arrested after a fraudster's statement: We feel like vagabonds.

In Georgia, an elderly homeowner was evicted and arrested.

When a particularly cunning fraudster used fake documents to claim ownership of real estate.

Charles and Charmaine Allman

They have lived in their home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, located 16 miles east of Atlanta, for the last two decades. However, authorities informed the couple on Tuesday that they are no longer the owners of the house and must leave. "They made us feel like illegal tenants," Charmain Allman told WSB-TV. "They just threw my things out as if it were trash." Most of the couple's belongings were scattered all over the yard.

According to the publication, an anonymous man allegedly forged ownership documents and submitted them to the DeKalb County online service to claim the Allman family's home. Charles Allman was arrested last week on charges of trespassing when he refused to leave the house where he had lived with his wife for over 20 years.

Suspecting something was wrong, the couple noticed when they received letters in the mailbox confirming that a second mortgage had been taken out. "We no longer have any mortgage," Allman said. The new owner informed the couple that he had purchased the house at auction after a forced sale.

Sharmaine Allman’s wife stated that during the eviction from their home last week, she felt like an illegal tenant. An anonymous man allegedly forged ownership documents and submitted them to the DeKalb County online service to claim the Allmans' house. According to police records, Charles Allman was arrested for trespassing on March 13.

“I don’t know how this is possible,” says Charmaine Allman about the arrest of her husband. “How did this even happen?

After the couple was evicted, their belongings were left scattered across the lawn. "It's very easy to forge a property ownership document and register it," says real estate attorney Richard Alembik to WSB-TV. "This is a big problem nowadays because electronic filing and electronic property registration have become so simple. It's very easy to register fake documents."

Alembic says that notaries do not verify the identity of people submitting documents to ensure they are the rightful owners. According to the publication, even if the victims of fraud have proof of ownership, a judge may still order them to vacate and pay fines.

Police are talking to Charmaine Allman outside her home in Stone Mountain after her eviction. The couple had lived in the house in Stone Mountain for over 20 years.

Last week in New York, a homeowner was arrested while trying to evict alleged squatters from her property in Queens. Adela Andaloro, 47, was arrested after changing the locks last month on a $1 million house in Flushing, Queens, which she claims she inherited after her parents' death, according to ABC News. The Queens District Attorney's office was denied access to the $1 million house in Flushing, as several residents claimed they were tenants, not squatters.