Couple wires $800,000 home down payment to scammer

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These days, the only person who can keep Kevin and Nicole Noar positive is their one-year-old son, Deklan.

Otherwise, they are tormented.

"We can't sleep," Nicole says. "You go through so many different feelings and then the worst part is the morning because you just wake up and you keep feeling like it's still real. You just want to wake up and feel like it didn't happen and it did."

The couple is living a nightmare, just days after they thought they'd achieved the American dream.

They're staying with family in Solana Beach at a time they thought they'd have closed on their dream home in Carlsbad, where they hoped to create a happy childhood for Deklan.

"All of this was for him," Nicole says. "The house, with the yard, with schools, and so he could have a sibling."

But instead, their roughly $775,000 down payment for that home, 60 percent of the purchase price, is now in the hands of a hacker in an account in Singapore. The money, which came from prior home ownership and inheritance, was supposed to go to lowering the couple's cost-of-living. Nicole is a nurse and Kevin is a chef, so they hoped to make the move more manageable.