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Where Florida homeowners fight back against foreclosure rescue scams
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Two more loan modification shops are under fire from Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum:
The lawsuits were filed against south Florida’s Keep Your Property Inc. and Jacksonville-based National Foreclosure Counseling Services Corp. The attorney general’s office alleges that both companies charged up-front fees to customers facing foreclosure. This is against the law in Florida.
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“State of emergency” were the words chosen by Attorney General Bill McCollum this week, when he announced that he was asking law enforcement officials from state and local agencies to step up enforcement efforts.
Mortgage fraud, and in particular, foreclosure rescue fraud, were the number one complaint to McCollum’s office in 2008.
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“We are asking the Court to shut them down.”
Another loan-modification shop, this time in conjunction with a law firm, has apparently run afoul of the law. Florida’s Attorney General, Bill McCollum, has sued Florida Foreclosure Law Center LLC and Lincoln Lending Services and said at a press conference:
We are asking the court to shut [...]
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Attorney General Bill McCollum is at it again, targeting perpetrators of mortgage fraud. This time, McCollum has sued some twenty-five defendants who allegedly skimmed over $6 million out of approximately 60 home loan transactions. Here’s some of how they did it:
Starting in July 2005 and continuing through at least January 2007, three [...]
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Bill McCollum, Florida’s attorney general, as been very active lately, going after a number of companies he has accused of foreclosure rescue scams and unfair mortgage-related practices, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
…McCollum has filed five cases against companies he believes have conducted questionable, if not illegal, acts in regard to mortgage and foreclosure [...]
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I have just learned that the Attorney General’s office has taken action today to fix one of the largest flaws in the Foreclosure Rescue Act. I don’t have the exact language, from from what I’ve been told, it uses the “express authority” provision in 501.1377 (2)(b) 2. to authorize certain Florida attorneys to provide foreclosure-related [...]
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On May 28, 2008, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed into law House Bill 643, meant to protect homeowners in foreclosure from falling prey to foreclosure rescue scammers. The law addresses two of the most common type of foreclosure rescue scams in Florida: foreclosure consultant fraud, and foreclosure transaction fraud.
Foreclosure consultant fraud
The typical foreclosure [...]
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