Category Archives: Debt Articles

Copy of Fake Bankruptcy Dismissal Notice From First American Debt Solutions

Here is a copy of the fake Chapter 13 dismissal notice that First American Debt Solutions is sending out to fool people into thinking their bankruptcy case has been dismissed. The goal, talk people into a debt settlement program. The notice is actually false, the bankruptcy has not been dismissed and it is nothing more [...]

Debt Relief Expert With Background You Don’t Know About

Photo Credit: Mastery of Maps I always have as much fun with titles to article so I thought I’d have fun with an article about myself. The funny thing is I’m writing an article here that doesn’t need to be written and I’m outing myself. Now that’s investigative journalism for you. No story left unturned. [...]

Fantasia Barrino’s Home in Foreclosure. American Idol Winner.

Just the other day I was writing about the pending foreclosure of an Extreme Makeover home and now, the imminent sale at public auction of the home of Fantasia Barrino, the winner of the popular American Idol television show. Apparently Fantasia is really singing the blues these days but I’m confident that the experience, in [...]

Current Debt Articles Worth Reading

Here are some current articles worth reading. Yes, You Can Live With Less Plastic Excerpt: If cash is now king, could Americans who give up credit cards live like royalty? Being forced to live entirely within your means may make you feel rich in a way, but trying to get along in the modern world [...]

Abilene, Texas Uses Tax Money to Help Debt Settlement Company Credit-Advisors.com to Grow

In what seems like the most out of touch move by any government entity, the city of Abilene, Texas is voting on “offering up to $172,500 in job creation incentives for the company, which would be affiliated with Credit-Advisors.com and create 12 jobs (not including management positions), each paying at least $30,000 per year, without [...]

Joseph Gembala, Esq. Sued for Loan Modification and Foreclosure Rescue Services.

A recent lawsuit alleges that yet another lawyer has found himself deep in trouble by over promising and under-delivering loan modification services. It is an interesting suit since it shows yet another twisted and convoluted network of companies created to confuse consumers and leave them still in trouble, but apparently poorer. Get Out of Debt [...]

Bob Lindsey Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Ahead of Trial – The Credit Card Solution, Justice Debt Relief, Freedom From Debt Alliance.

Hot off the press, Bob Lindsey, the serial debt relief huckster has just filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy. – Source. Apparently this isn’t Bob’s first time at the dance. He apparently filed bankruptcy in 2002 as well. The belief is that he’s made this move just ahead of his Texas trial in two weeks for his [...]

Recent Searches for Debt Advice

I thought you might be interested in some recent search requests from visitors. It helps to give you a snapshot of what is on the minds of people looking for help. hide phone number from debt collectors how to get out of deebt experts advice on getting rid of debt better management of credit rating [...]

What Do You Think of Solid Ground Financial? – Lorie

“Dear Steve, I am self employed hairdresser and the economy has hurt my business so much we cannot contuine to make our monthly payments. Just today I signed papers to let solid ground financial settle my debt..I am scared, and wondering if we did the right thing…I don’t want to get sued, or have my [...]

Yep, It’s Official Mann Bracken Out of Business. Ordered to Cease All Debt Collection Activity.

Recently people have been leaving comments that the national debt collection company Mann Bracken is not cashing their checks. Well it appears clear now that Mann Bracken has been put out of business and they have lost their debt collection license from the State of Maryland. On January 1, 2010 Scott Kramer, Esq. of Mann [...]

More Lawyers Arrested for Loan Modification Scam Involving Home Relief Services and US Loan Mod Processing.

A lawyer and his business partner have been arrested on charges of defrauding over 400 victims in a $1.25 million loan modification scam that targeted distressed homeowners. A warrant has been issued for another business partner in this case. Former attorney Christopher Lee Diener, 42, and business partners Stefano Joseph Marrero, 40, and Terrence Green [...]

Debt Settlement Industry Invaded by the Mafia, Mob, and Organized Crime

I have been doing a number of reviews of companies in the debt settlement industry lately and one thing has become very clear, the industry seems to be rife with some really bad people. Now nobody wears a tag around their neck that says “I’m in the Mob” and there is no Mobbook to look [...]

Tim McCallan And His Nine Lives in the Debt Relief World

Timothy T. McCallan may be the smartest person in the underworld of debt relief industry. Under his direct and indirect manipulation the debt management and debt relief world has changed invisibly over many years. I would argue that Tim McCallan may be the biggest fish to have never been caught in any regulator crackdown. The [...]

Loan Modification and Foreclosure Prevention Programs Are Not Working for Most

North Carolina just released a report which did a great job of narrowing in on the core issues that I hear from many people attempting to get their mortgage loans modified or who think a foreclosure prevention program is going to help save their house. For a small minority of applicants these programs are effective, [...]

FTC Halts Bogus Credit Card Business

May 19, 1998 A business that claimed it could obtain unsecured credit cards — even for consumers with past credit problems — for up-front “processing fees” of up to $129 has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that in almost all cases they failed to provide the cards and, in others, they failed to [...]