PITTSBURGH -- It’s called the Suckers List, it’s very real and it’s one list you don’t want to be on.

If you’ve been taken once, chances are your name is on the list.

Lisa Hockenberry, of Lower Burrell, was having financial trouble and was facing foreclosure, so she paid a company more than a $1,000 to help save her home.

The company took her money, but never helped her.

Hockenberry contacted a local attorney and he ultimately helped her save the house.

The company refused to refund her money and she filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Attorney General.

Target 11 discovered the same company Hockenberry paid had been prosecuted for similar practices in Ohio and Illinois.

Hockenberry thought the schemes had ended until she received another phone call.

Last month Hockenberry said a woman called her to say a mortgage company had hired her and she needed Hockenberry's personal information.

Hockenberry was suspicious and didn’t give out any information, but she may have gotten that second call because her name may have landed on a special list, a list the Pittsburgh Better Business Bureau is very familiar with.

Warren King, of the BBB, said, “She was put on the Sucker List and once you're on that list you have to be careful who you deal with.”

It's a list of people who have been taken before and those names are then circulated among thieves.

King said, “In most instances what will happen, it will be sold, the con artists, they all know who do the same type of promotions, scams and schemes and they'll either sell it or provide it to an affiliate or a division of their particular company.”

If you think you’ve landed on the Suckers List you can fight back.

You need to do write to the Telephone Preference Service at PO Box 9014, Farmingdale, NY 11735.

Tell them you want your name taken off the mail and telephone list.

For more information on telemarketing fraud go to PA Attorney General and Private citizen