Foreclosure Fraud Alert – Fraudblog

An increase in mortgage delinquencies is usually accompanied by a rise in foreclosures rescue scams.   The prospect of losing your own home and damaging your credit score is sufficient to scare anyone, but whenever you add the additional threat of being duped out of your laborious-earned cash by an unscrupulous scam artist, it is simple [...]

NeighborWorks, a national nonprofit created by Congress in 1974, has launched a campaign that is loan modification scam central: tips on how to spot scams, numbers to call if you suspect you are being scammed and poignant vignettes of people who have been scammed.
The timing for a national anti-scam campaign seems good: [...]

Why is it that banks are still doing this, you ring your bank to get a balance check for instance and what do they ask you:
Account Name -the ID thief will already have this if they have targeted you
Account Number & Sort Code – Again the ID thief will already have this, look how many [...]

If you’ve been looking into investing in government foreclosures, you’re on the right track. As far as investing in property goes, you can’t beat the profit potential inherent in tax foreclosure properties. If you bypass the tax sale auction and purchase directly from the owners themselves, you stand to find some pretty good deals. (See [...]

Foreclosure. Nothing is more frightening as a home owner then the feelings of helplessness associated with the prospect of losing your home. Stop feeling helpless. Feel frightened, feel frustrated, feel cheated, but never feel helpless. You can act to stop the process.
As soon as they realize that they might be entering the foreclosure process most [...]