In 2006, Joseph A. Graziola, III was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for his fraudulent credit repair activities under his company Bad Credit B Gone. This case ended with a $322,047 judgment against Graziola. Bad Debt B Gone was nailed for making the same old stupid and fraudulent promises of removing accurate but negative …
So your credit’s not so hot. A few late payments, maybe an account or two that went to collections. What’s the big deal? As you’ve probably found out, it may be a very big deal. You’ve probably already been turned down for the best credit cards and maybe you’ve had trouble getting a car loan. …
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has banned eight companies and their principals from selling credit repair and mortgage relief services, and ordered them to pay more than $7.5 million for deceiving consumers throughout the United States. In February 2009, the FTC charged seven of the companies and three officers with making …
Here’s the scene. Wide shot of Beverly Hills residents getting hammered in a bad economy, running up debt and losing retirement savings. Cut to next scene where Donna Chavez of DEC Credit Corrections collects $1,000 from this out of work, senior, psychiatrist, who was disabled after back surgery. Donna is alleged to have made promises …
Here is a new trick that is totally not worth the $3,999 that’s being charged, let alone $39, in my opinion. This company that is promoting you can have a good credit score by legally changing your name but keeping your old social security number. Now from the advertisement above it sounds miraculous. But how …
While searching out scams to avoid recently I came across many that were willing, for a fee, to help me repair bad credit using a CPN or Credit Profile Number. There is a lot of misinformation online about the CPN but what you need to know is you can’t use a fictional number in place …
Well it has happened again. Yet another credit repair organization has fallen under the sledgehammer known as the Federal Trade Commission and you know what, rightfully so, idiot scammers. Wishful consumers desperate for a quick fix to hide accurate but negative items on their credit report are easy prey for credit repair scammers looking to …
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum issued a consumer advisory warning Floridians about scams related to credit and debt issues. Companies offering credit repair solutions or debt settlement were among the top concerns reported to the Attorney General’s Office last year. The Attorney General noted that, given the current economic climate, disreputable companies will likely continue …
I spend a lot of time helping people resolve credit issues and getting finances under control. Now it’s time to give guidance to those folks who are desperate to screw-up their credit. Who’d want to do that, you say? Plenty of folks are in an all-fired rush to make bad credit mistakes. Here’s how they …
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sued Todd Swick and Michael Sardo, owners of Los Angeles based Executive Financial Credit Services, for ignoring “repeated warnings” to register with his office and post a $100,000 bond with the Secretary of State. “Swick and Sardo violated California law by refusing to register their credit repair …