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• Illinois AG Sues Three Loan Modification Firms

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  MADIGAN CONTINUES TO CRACK DOWN ON MORTGAGE RESCUE FRAUDPress Release - Illinois Attorney General Files Three New Lawsuits, Joins Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice in Move to Protect At-Risk Homeowners NationwideChicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced three lawsuits against ...
  5 days ago

• Freedom Foreclosure Prevention Services Settles With the FTC for $5.4 Million

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  FTC – The Commission has agreed to settlements in its case against Freedom Foreclosure Prevention Services, LLC that, pending court approval, would ban Jeffrey Segal and Michael Workman from working in the loan modification industry and bar them from misrepresenting material facts in selling any goods or ...
  1 week ago

• Crowder Law Group – FTC Says They Acted Like the Feds to Dupe Homeowners

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Crowder Law Group and its co-defendants allegedly misrepresented themselves as a federal government agency or affiliate. Their personalized postcards to consumers stated, “You may qualify under the new government bailout to refinance your current mortgage . . . ” Some postcards described the defendants’ programs ...
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• Crossland Credit Consulting – FTC Files Lawsuit and Freezes Assets

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Crossland Credit Consulting Corp. out of Flordia and its co-defendants allegedly operated deceptive mortgage refinancing, credit repair, and loan modification schemes.According to the FTC complaint, they falsely promised to use proceeds from mortgage refinances to promptly pay off consumers’ original loans, but ...
  1 week ago

• Operation Stolen Hope: 26 States Join Together to Combat Fraud

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Federal and State Agencies Target Mortgage Relief ScamsFTC Leads “Operation Stolen Hope” to Stop Fraud and Help Troubled HomeownersFederal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, joined by U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, and Assistant Attorney General Tony West of the ...
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• Hope for Homeowners Now Busted in Arizona Scam Sweep

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  PHOENIX – A nationwide investigation is bringing down companies accused of preying on homeowners in desperate situations — offering home loan modifications to avoid foreclosure, all for a fee — but those homeowners didn’t get anything in return.“Hope for Homeowners Now” in Glendale is one of two companies ...
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• First Universal Lending – Missouri Attorney General Files Lawsuit

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Attorney General Koster sues foreclosure consultant– Continues Zero Tolerance Campaign –Jefferson City, Mo. — Attorney General Chris Koster said today he is suing a Florida company that took money from distressed Missouri homeowners without providing any meaningful mortgage-modification service. Koster joined ...
  1 week ago

• Colorado Attorney General Sues 10 Loan Modification Companies

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  DENVER — Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced today that his office has taken action against 10 loan-modification firms doing business in Colorado as part of his office’s efforts to crack down on loan-modification companies preying on Coloradans in foreclosure.These 10 companies, nine of which are ...
  1 week ago

• Summer Creek Homes & Chris Shepard: They stole my home!

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Submitted by Homeowner, Ron Calvin: I received two letters asking to submit more docs for loan mod. So I submit, meanwhile Chris Shepard dba Summer Creek Homes puts title in his name. I called Linh Nguyen my negotiator and he tells me that the title could not be in his name because AMHSI owns the property. [...]
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• Greenleaf Legal Services: DRE says they’re operating illegally and they need to be stopped

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Authorities said Greenleaf’s website falsely advertises it’s “approved” by the Department of Real Estate.“They’re not approved to do loan modifications,” said Commissioner Jeff Davi of the Department of Real Estate. “It’s false, misleading and completely inaccurate. And we are going to ensure that it ...
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• MFI Miami: Are Steve Dilbert & Green Credit Solutions Partners in Loan Modification Crime?

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Are MFI-Miami and  Steve Dilbert really a front for illegal loan modification scams?For years I have volunteered and offered free foreclosure prevention and loan modification information on and off the internet. In doing so I have had many mortgage copy cats, critics and internet haters. Some of these very same ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loan Modification Scammer Receives 12 Years in Prison

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  This has to be the longest prison sentence that I have seen for scamming homeowners and scammers really should take notice.You know the old saying, “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime?” For some reason I just do not think that these little creepy mortgage and real estate scammers do not analyse ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are honest loan modification companies being unfairly targeted?

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Earlier this year, legislation was passed creating strict regulations for loan modification companies in Nevada. The hope was that the new rules would weed out the companies which have been scamming homeowners.  But are the rules penalizing honest companies?     News 3’s Dan Ball spoke with a loan ...
  2 weeks ago

• K.N.C. Financiera Inc.: California DRE Files Cease and Desist

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  The California Department of Real Estate has issued an order to “desist and refrain” to the operators of K.N.C. Financiera Inc., a Bakersfield company that was marketing loan modification services even though its leaders did not have real estate licenses, according to the state.The two principals of the company ...
  2 weeks ago

• Behind on Mortgage: Texas Attorney General Files Lawsuit

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Attorney General Abbott Takes Enforcement Action Against Dallas-area ‘Mortgage Rescue’ Operation Behind on Mortgage’ defendants bilked unwitting homeownersDALLAS – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today took legal action to obtain restitution for a fraudulent “mortgage rescue” firm’s victims.Dallas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Loan Modification Scam PSA #2

  
  CVN Money — Authority: 140
  California Department of Real Estate Loan Modification Scam PSA. Beware of home loan modification scams and foreclosure fraud. Loan modification advice and loan modification tips. Call 888-995-HOPE for more information.
  3 weeks ago

• FBI Offers Homeowners Tips to Avoid Loan Modification Scams

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  Consumer Alert: Don’t Let Foreclosure Rescue Schemes Sink YouFees and Practices Trigger Complaints to FBI and State InvestigatorsIn tough financial times it seems plenty of companies are claiming they can save Utah homeowners from foreclosure. There are a growing number of advertisements offering home loan ...
  3 weeks ago

• California DRE Looking Into 1,3000 Loan Modification Scams

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  “These people were taking advantage of people at the end of their ropes,” said Davi, speaking at the O.C. Coastal Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors. “And they are so prevalent.”Many scam artists see the issuance of a desist-and-refrain order as a cost of doing business, Davi said. Often, they’re ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Determine If a Company Specializes in Loan Modification Fraud

  
  Mortgage-Blog — Authority: 450
  It is sad to think that there are still a lot of companies who do loan modification scams on people who are currently deep in debt. It is even more unfortunate that even if the country is already experiencing a traumatic downfall in the economy, these companies still have the nerve to steal and fool its customers. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Government Wants School Children and Homeowners to Spot Scams

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 147
  And it is one of the first places targeted in the homeowner education campaign launched on Monday by government agencies, local leaders and housing advocates to stop scammers preying on desperate borrowers nationwide.Officials do not know how many scams have been perpetrated among millions of American families who ...
  5 weeks ago

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