Article Category and State Index
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Entries by Category
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- Acquittals (4)
- Action by Mortgage Regulators (238)
- Action by State Bar (2)
- Advance Fee Fraud (15)
- Affinity Fraud (1)
- Alabama (16)
- Alaska (4)
- Appraiser and/or False Appraisal(s) (147)
- Arizona (45)
- Arkansas (10)
- Arrests (107)
- Bankruptcy Fraud (22)
- Bid rigging (11)
- Bribery/Corruption (8)
- Broker (471)
- Builder Bail-Out (5)
- Builder fraud (2)
- California (257)
- Cease and Desist Orders (47)
- Charges dropped (1)
- Church related frauds (19)
- Civil Complaint alleging fraud (20)
- Closing Agent/Attorney (251)
- Colorado (54)
- Commercial Mortgage (31)
- Complaints (1)
- Connecticut (40)
- Consent Orders (2)
- Construction Loans (25)
- Consumer Alert (9)
- Contractor Fraud (1)
- Convictions (596)
- Court Cases (168)
- Cox and Hauck case (3)
- CPA (22)
- Cuyahoga MFTF (4)
- Czech Republic (1)
- Daily Story Updates (56)
- Dayton Mortgage Fraud Task Force (1)
- Delaware (8)
- Dept of Veteran Affairs (11)
- Developer (19)
- Developer / Builder Bail Out (22)
- Disbarment (3)
- District of Columbia (16)
- Do Not Call Violations (1)
- Down Payment (28)
- Drug Trafficking (25)
- Elder Explotation (43)
- Email Scams (3)
- Embezzlement (3)
- Equity Stripping/Skimming (31)
- False Deeds/Liens (1)
- False Employment (3)
- False Income (2)
- False VOD (1)
- Fannie Mae Fraud Updates (2)
- Farmers Home Admin (1)
- FinCEN (3)
- Flipping (453)
- Florida (212)
- FLQC Meeting (1)
- Foreclosure avoidance scams (123)
- Forged Deed Transfers (Out from Under) (92)
- Forgery (29)
- Fraud Alerts (8)
- Fraud Prevention News (30)
- Fraud Statistics (1)
- FTC (5)
- Funds to close (4)
- General Fraud News and Info (140)
- Georgia (148)
- Governmental Hearings (6)
- Great Britain (1)
- Grow House (1)
- Guilty Plea (186)
- Harris County, TX (1)
- Hawaii (5)
- HELOC (5)
- HELOC's (2)
- Home Equity Loans (8)
- Home Improvement Loans (8)
- HUD (141)
- HUD OND Program (4)
- Hurricaine Katrina Fraud (1)
- ID Theft (189)
- Idaho (8)
- Illinois (111)
- Indiana (64)
- Indictments (912)
- International (9)
- Investigations (42)
- Investment Schemes (169)
- Iowa (8)
- IRS Investigation (25)
- Kakvand (2)
- Kansas (30)
- Kentucky (19)
- Kidnap (1)
- Kings County MFTF (3)
- Land Fraud (2)
- Law Enforcement News (27)
- Law Enforcement Officer (18)
- Lender Employee (1)
- Lenders (58)
- Loan Modification scams (10)
- Loan Modifications (8)
- Loan Officers (121)
- Loan Processor (2)
- Louisiana (12)
- Maine (8)
- Manufactured Housing (26)
- Maryland (79)
- Maryland MFTF (3)
- Massachusetts (55)
- Matthew Cox (1)
- Miami-Dade MFTF (1)
- Michigan (50)
- Minnesota (37)
- Mississippi (18)
- Missouri (93)
- Money Laundering (68)
- Montana (6)
- Mortgage Backed Securities (16)
- Mortgage Elimination schemes (1)
- Mortgage Fraud Discussion Group (1)
- Mortgage Related Murder(s) (9)
- Mortgage Spam (2)
- Nebraska (3)
- Nevada (25)
- New Hampshire (7)
- New Jersey (73)
- New Legislation (15)
- New Mexico (6)
- New York (202)
- Newspaper Articles (1)
- North Carolina (58)
- North Dakota (1)
- Notary (9)
- Ohio (122)
- Oklahoma (9)
- Op Malicious Mortgage (3)
- Operation Madhouse (3)
- Operation Malicious Mortgage (24)
- Oregon (22)
- Organized Crime (2)
- Other Mortgage News (1)
- Overcharging and/or Theft of Mortgage Fees (53)
- Parrish Marketing (1)
- Pennsylvania (105)
- Phishing (1)
- Poconos (5)
- Preparing False Documents (178)
- Presidential Pardons (1)
- Prieston Group (4)
- Public Corruption (21)
- Puerto Rico (2)
- Pump and Dump (2)
- Racketeering (5)
- Real Estate Investor (28)
- Realtor (113)
- Research Papers (2)
- Restraining Orders (1)
- Reverse Mortgages (3)
- Rhode Island (6)
- SARs (1)
- Section 8 Housing Fraud (22)
- Securities & Exchange Commission (6)
- Settlement agreements (1)
- South Carolina (19)
- South Dakota (2)
- Stipulation & Order (1)
- Straw Borrowers (132)
- Suffolk County MFTF (1)
- Tennessee (30)
- Terrorism (6)
- Texas (102)
- The Amico case (1)
- The Prieston Group (2)
- Theft of Mortgage Proceeds (139)
- Time Shares (1)
- Title and Escrow (99)
- Treasury (1)
- Undercover Operation. (1)
- Unlicensed Appraiser (1)
- Unlicensed Mortgage Broker (41)
- Unlicensed Mortgage Lender (6)
- Use of False ID (12)
- Utah (22)
- Vermont (8)
- Virginia (35)
- Wanted (3)
- Warehouse Line (2)
- Washington (WA) (36)
- Wayne County DFTF (3)
- Western PA MFTF (4)
- Wisconsin (21)
- Witness Tampering/Obstruction of Justice (13)
- Zintron Case (2)
40 Most Recent Entries
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- Phoenix business owner arrested for ID Theft and mortgage fraud - used dead persons SSN
- Former mortgage broker pleads guilty in Minnesota flipping scheme
- 13 charged in $9 million Ohio flipping scheme which involved 30 homes
- Husband and wife indicted in Staten Island title fraud allegations
- Beazer Homes agrees to pay up to $53 million to settle mortgage fraud claims
- Ohio AG files lawsuits against three foreclosure rescue companies
- New Jersey AG announces three seperate mortgage fraud indictments
- Another Oregon loan officer indicted in fraud allegations
- Oregon loan officer indicted for falsifying five mortgage applications
- Oregon loan originator accused of fraud in his own loan application
- Lakeville (MN) woman charged with theft from real estate closings
- Two Colorado men charged in scheme that involved 22 properties
- NY attorney accused of Grand Larceny in a real estate closing
- Brooklyn (NY) man charged with $2.3 million real estate loan theft
- Ohio man indicted in $1.9 million mortgage fraud allegations
- California AG charges Sacramento women in real estate fraud charges
- 19 indicted in huge Chicago area flipping scheme (1 of 5)
- Ten indicted in $17.2 million fraud allegations involving Chicago condo complex (2 of 5)
- 6 indicted in alleged $3.3 million Chicago area fraud involving two homes (3 of 5)
- Former CEO of lender indicted in alleged scheme to defraud GMAC (4 of 5)
- 6 indicted in $3 million Chicago area mortgage fraud (5 of 5)
- Florida mortgage broker convicted in Jacksonville fraud scheme
- Father and son team issued Cease and Desist order in real estate investment scheme
- SEC files suit in $6 million real estate investment scheme
- FTC Stops Foreclosure Prevention Marketers
- Kings County DA and Senator Schumer give update on mortgage fraud task force
- AZ Dept of Financial Institutions revokes broker license in fraud allegations
- Harris county man sentenced in scheme that involved seven over valued homes
- Disbarred attorney indicted by Prince George's County grand jury
- Cabot woman accused of providing false VOD's (1 of 4)
- Sewickley, PA man indicted on mortgage fraud charge (2 of 4)
- Pittsburg man indicted in mortgage fraud allegations (3 of 4)
- Verona, PA man indicted in loan fraud (4 of 4)
- Father and son indicted in Missouri mortgage fraud allegations
- 100 mortgage fraud probes underway in Puerto Rico
- President of Puerto Rico mortgage broker pleads guilty in fraud charges
- Omaha real estate investors charged with mortgage fraud
- Denver real estate developer indicted in $3.8 million fraud charges
- Maryland builder who took money and failed to construct homes is charged
- Massachusetts Broker banned and fined over "repeated instances of fraud"
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- December 2008 (67)
- November 2008 (12)
- October 2008 (53)
- September 2008 (62)
- August 2008 (26)
- July 2008 (7)
- June 2008 (43)
- May 2008 (13)
- April 2008 (10)
- March 2008 (3)
- January 2008 (1)
- December 2007 (8)
- November 2007 (41)
- October 2007 (29)
- September 2007 (43)
- August 2007 (17)
- July 2007 (31)
- June 2007 (39)
- May 2007 (27)
- April 2007 (6)
- March 2007 (31)
- February 2007 (44)
- January 2007 (55)
- December 2006 (45)
- November 2006 (67)
- October 2006 (33)
- September 2006 (35)
- August 2006 (14)
- July 2006 (35)
- June 2006 (52)
- May 2006 (37)
- April 2006 (52)
- March 2006 (29)
- February 2006 (9)
- January 2006 (19)
- December 2005 (13)
- November 2005 (29)
- October 2005 (28)
- September 2005 (58)
- August 2005 (70)
- July 2005 (62)
- June 2005 (67)
- May 2005 (35)
- April 2005 (41)
- March 2005 (66)
- February 2005 (54)
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- December 2004 (61)
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