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Lexington Law Credit Repair Gets Hammered in Lawsuit Settlement. If You Sell Credit Repair – Wake Up!

Bank of America Botched Unemployment Payments During Pandemic

Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Lexington Law, the largest credit repair operation in the United States, entered into a Stipulated Final Judgement and Order the Court must approve. I would be surprised if they didn’t. I’m going to bold what I think are the most important revelations. The proposed order says, “Plaintiff Bureau …

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Good Bye Rando Credit Repair Scammers

Wave Goodbye to the Middle Class

As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, the operators of “The Credit Game,” a credit repair scheme that cost consumers millions of dollars, face a lifetime ban from the credit repair industry in proposed court orders filed today. Michael and Valerie Rando and their companies, first sued by the FTC in May 2022, would also be …

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CFPB Takes Action to Address Junk Data in Credit Reports

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to consumer reporting companies about their obligation to screen for and eliminate obviously false “junk data” from consumers’ credit reports. Companies need to take steps to reliably detect and remove inconsistent or impossible information from consumers’ credit profiles. For example, many children in foster care have …

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Credit Repair Mega Player Lexington Law Rocked With TSR Issues

A recent court document in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) case against Lexington Law, John C. Heath, PGX Holdings, Progrexion Marketing, Progrexion Teleservices, eFolks, and CreditRepair.com has produced an interesting section on credit repair billing. The CFPB states, “Plaintiff Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (“Bureau”) alleges that Defendants John C. Heath, Attorney-at-Law, P.C., d/b/a …

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Hyundai Sent Negative Information to Credit Bureaus That Was Inaccurate

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) penalized Hyundai Capital America (Hyundai) for repeatedly providing inaccurate information to nationwide credit reporting companies and failing to take proper measures to address inaccurate information once it was identified between 2016 and 2020. The CFPB found that Hyundai used manual and outdated systems, processes, and procedures to furnish …

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CFPB Let’s A Little More Out on Lexington Law Credit Repair Lawsuit

CFPB Let’s A Little More Out on Lexington Law Credit Repair Lawsuit

In 2019 the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) filed suit against the popular company for credit repair, Lexington Law. Parties named in the suit are Progrexion Marketing, PGX Holdings, Progrexion Teleservices, Efolks, CreditRepair.com, John C. Heath Attorney at Law, and Lexington Law. This has been a difficult story to follow since Lexington Law and others …

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Texas Woman Arrested For Credit Repair Through Illegal Means

Texas Woman Arrested For Credit Repair Business

A woman from Humble, Texas, was recently arrested by local police for using dubious police reports to get items removed from consumer credit reports. According to KHOU 11, Roekeicha Brisby is accused of fixing people’s credit through illegal means between November 2020 and March 2022. She’s charged with forgery and fraudulent use of identifying information, …

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Credit Repair Head Has An Interesting Court Transcript

Credit Repair Head Has An Interesting Court Transcript

Recent court documents present a very interesting transcript in the case brought by the Department of Justice against Turbo Solutions, Alex Miller Financial Services, Alex Miller Credit Repair, Alexander V. Miller You can find past posts on this case using this and this. Transcript from March 22, 2022 Found in Another Filing DEFENDANT MILLER: Yes. …

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FTC Shuts Down Credit Repair Pyramid Scheme Financial Education Services, Which Bilked More Than $213 Million from Consumers

Wide-ranging Operation Promises Easy Credit Fixes, But Provides Worthless Services and Pitches Pyramid Scheme Where Few, If Any, Make Money The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against Financial Education Services and its owners, Parimal Naik, Michael Toloff, Christopher Toloff and Gerald Thompson, as well as a number of related companies, for scamming consumers out …

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Financial Education Services and United Wealth Services Credit Repair Sued by FTC

On May 23, 2022, Financial Education Services, United Wealth Services, VR-Tech, VR-Tech Mgt, CM Rent, Youth Financial Literacy Foundation, Parimal Naik, Michael Toloff, Christopher Toloff, and Gerald Thompson and into an FTC lawsuit and takeover. This is yet another credit repair operation that has run into regulators. Ironically, I wrote about this operation in 2012. …

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