As previously reported in FDIC Consumer News, many homeowners having difficulty making their monthly mortgage payments are being targeted by criminals who charge large upfront fees and falsely “guarantee” to rescue a home from foreclosure. Foreclosure Rescue and Loan Modification Scammers: FDIC Tips
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Foreclosure Rescue and Loan Modification Scammers: Buyer Beware
May 28th, 2009 
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Protect Yourself from Mortgage and Foreclosure Scams - 73th Edition
April 16th, 2009 admin Although the Department of Real Estate has jurisdiction over certain licensees engaged in mortgage loan brokering, we routinely receive calls concerning many areas in which we have no enforcement authority.
Protect Yourself from Mortgage and Foreclosure Scams
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MORTGAGE FRAUD: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
August 14th, 2008 admin Sub-prime loans. Foreclosures. Government bailouts. You can’t read a newspaper or watch the evening news these days without seeing stories about the current mortgage crisis and the fraud that goes along with it.
HUD Announces Disaster Assistance For Iowa Storm Victims
May 28th, 2008 U.S. Government News Foreclosure protection offered to displaced families in Butler County
Foreclosure Mortgage Rescue Scam: FTC Files Charges
April 29th, 2008 U.S. Government News The Federal Trade Commission has charged Foreclosure Solutions, LLC and Timothy A. Buckley with operating a nationwide mortgage foreclosure “rescue” scam that charged consumers as much as $1,200 to save their homes from foreclosure but failed to do so. The FTC seeks to bar them from further law violations and make them forfeit their ill-gotten gains.
