Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

I used to live in a home that went into foreclosure and the owner did not let me know. I found out when I was sick one day and they were placing notices on the house. The auction sale date was 5/26/09, but the landlord stated that the sale was stopped and that she was getting the loan modified. She told me that I had to pay June rent, but she would reduce it until the modification went through so I paid her because I did not want any problems. I had been receiving emails from her and people that she was supposedly working with on the modification during this time. I had to move out last July and then found out that the auction sale was never stopped and that the house was not in her name for the month of June. I asked her for the June rent back since it was not her house, but she has refused. I filed a small calims case against her and just found out that she filed bankruptcy. Would this be considered fraud because she took that money when she knew that the house was not hers?

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