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How to spot and avoid rental scams: Verify the details. Look for the property owner’s name, phone number and email address online. If possible, drive by the address to confirm the photos in the ...
A firm may offer to act as an agent to renegotiate the terms of a loan with the lender, in return for a fee. [4] The firms are unlikely to have any better negotiation power so the value of the fee may be disproportionate to the service received, the firm may be unable to negotiate any better terms or in the worst cases may not contact the ...
In an equity stripping scheme an investor buys the property from a homeowner facing foreclosure and agrees to lease the home to the homeowner who may remain in the home as a tenant. Often, these transactions take advantage of uninformed, low-income homeowners; because of the complexity of the transaction, victims are often unaware that they are ...
In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]
Prosecutors say the Macon man was part of a scheme that used forged Ids and debit cards to defraud The Home Depot out of more than $800,000.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2023 Elder Fraud Report found that people over 60 lost over $3.4 billion to scams last year — an 11% increase since 2022. That puts each individual victim ...
Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or ...
"Robo-signing" is a term used by consumer advocates to describe the rubber-stamp process of mass production of false and forged execution of mortgage assignments, satisfactions, affidavits, and other legal documents related to mortgage foreclosures and legal matters being created by persons without knowledge of the facts being attested to.