Mortgage scams still out there
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Susan Tompor
The Detroit Free Press
As consumers hear about new ways to get loan modifications, they should avoid the old mortgage scams, too.
Kathy Williams, housing coordinator for Oakland County's Community and Home Improvement Division, said consumers should be wary of anyone who calls you out of the blue and offers some sort of rescue plan. And she warned that more scam artists could be calling.
The National Federation for Credit Counseling noted this week that the confusion surrounding the federal government's "Making Home Affordable" plan may play into future scams.
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What should be done is to aks yourself is sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The only loan one should seek is at a fixed rate. Most of the Variable rates are scams.
California is and always will be the epicenter of mortgage fraud and, regardless of industry, the world heavyweight champion of scams.
Whether it was Angelo Mozilo and his Countrywide Fraud Factory or countless bogus production companies that loot investors and pay entertainment executives the big bucks, California is in a league of it's own.
Nothing stops "greed,"---it is a disease that is mestatic, undifferentiated and resistant.