ForeclosureRescue

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 7:30PM 7/15/2009
    A collection of 25 federal and state agencies have lodged a total of 189 actions against individuals and companies who allegedly deceived consumers into paying for bogus foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification programs, the Federal Trade Commission announced.The crackdown, called "Operation...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 3:00PM 6/02/2009
    California is stepping up its crackdown on foreclosure scams that prey on people about to lose their homes.Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that foreclosure consultants must register with his office by July 1 and post a $100,000 bond in order to do business in California. Failure to...