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More California Mortgage Modification Scammers Head to Jail

Four people who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga business that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners – victims who lost more than $7 million when they paid for services that were never provided – were sentenced today to federal prison, with one of the leaders of the scheme being ordered …

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Debt Relief Owners and Salespeople Headed to Jail for Fraud

On June 9, 2015, a federal jury convicted three California residents who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., business that offered bogus loan modification programs to thousands of financially distressed homeowners who lost more than $7 million when they paid for services, including loan modifications, that were never provided. The three Southland, Calif., residents were …

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Debt Relief Company Uses Notaries to Meet With Consumers. Notaries Turn the Company In to Regulators.

21st Century Legal Services, Inc. out of California, with 301 unanswered BBB complaints (source), has just agreed to pay almost $300,000 in fines to the state of Wisconsin as the result of a default judgment. What makes this case so interesting for other areas of debt relief services is that it used local notaries to …

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Beware of Offers to Help Settle Debt Says Wisconsin State Journal

An excellent article by Chris Rickert out of Wisconsin exposed a very interesting bit of news from The Association of Settlement Companies (TASC) reveling how ineffective debt settlement is for most people. When I first wrote my article “The Truth About The Failure Rates and Completion Rates of Credit Counseling, Debt Settlement, and Bankruptcy“, TASC …

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