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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...

Federal law enforcement agencies, state investigators and prosecutors, civil enforcement authorities, and the private sector banded together today to protect homeowners from criminals operating foreclosure or loan modification schemes. This new, coordinated effort will improve fraud investigations,...