The Federal Trade Commission obtained an order halting a credit repair scheme that allegedly bilked consumers out of millions of dollars by falsely claiming they will remove negative information from credit reports, while also filing fake identity theft reports to explain negative items on customers’ credit reports. At the request of the FTC and the …
Question: Dear Steve, Two years ago, My credit report was horrible; all kinds of things in collections. My credit score was 519, my wife was 430, and she had no credit when she did have only collections. In 2 years, I cleaned everything up except for like three things with a total of less than …
You have to give a hat tip to attorney Robby Birnbaum who is seemingly involved with a number of debt/credit niche associations. In a recent presentation, Mr. Birnbaum was introduced as the current president of the National Association of Credit Services Organizations (NACSO). Mr. Birnbaum is a long-standing attorney representing and advising clients in this …
Here is an important lesson for any company or person that is selling any service that uses added authorized users or tradelines to a consumer credit report in order to improve the credit score. The information below comes directly from the case filed by the Federal Trade Commission and to make sure people don’t feel …
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted and frozen the assets of Grand Teton Professionals, an alleged credit repair scheme that charged illegal upfront fees and falsely claimed to repair consumers’ credit. The company and other defendants are charged with violating the FTC Act and several provisions of the Credit …
Question: Dear Steve, I have been researching Debt settlements companies as am buried in debt and desperately trying to get out of them. Well someone referred me to someone named Kelly who sent me an email regarding the company he works for “Teton Debt Settlement”. In the email he included a few documents regarding the …
Scammers Will Be Banned From Credit Repair Services Industry, Subject to a $2.4 Million Judgment The operators of a bogus credit repair scheme that allegedly tricked Spanish-speaking consumers into paying thousands of dollars each to supposedly improve their credit will be banned from offering credit repair services and subject to a monetary judgment under settlements …
A U.S. district court granted a Federal Trade Commission request and has temporarily shut down a Florida-based operation that allegedly continued to pitch bogus credit-repair services nationwide, despite a 2010 court order requiring it to stop. The new court order, which will remain in place while the FTC seeks a contempt ruling against the defendants …
Thomas Randall Wells, TRW Ventures LLC, TRW Ventures Inc, TRW Credit Repair Experts Inc and TRW Credit Group LLP are apparently just plain stupid. The defendants in McDaniel v. Wells filed in Arkansas Federal Court by the Arkansas Attorney General, elected to do two unbelievable things. Sell credit repair services for an advanced fee. Not …
Be on the lookout for a fax that is being sent out below. A tipster (send in your tips here) sent in the fax below and it raises a number of red flags for me. The fax allegedly comes from the 561 area code (561-634-2067), the unsubscribe is in the 208 area code (208-337-6079) and …