Open your e-mail account and check the spam/junk folder. More likely than not, you have at least one message claiming that you've won some sort of lottery. These e-mails come from strangers: 419 Advance Fee Fraud scammers who harvest e-mails...
June 2010 Archives
The FBI is warning that denial-of-service attacks - when computer hackers take down websites by flooding them with large amounts of traffic - are being moved to telephones. But it turns out, the flood of annoying calls are simply a...
A group of Florida activists and attorneys have planned a "Hero Appreciation Day for Defenders of Justice along with a Strategic Defense Session" to be held near the Florida Annual Bar Convention in Boca Raton, Florida. For more details and...
Another great BloggersUnite.org event is taking place on July 24, 2010. The goal of this event is to raise awareness about the challenges that face people with disabilities every day and how we can help eliminate these challenges.By sharing stories...
Quick scam alert...DO NOT FALL FOR the latest email scam circulating. It arrives as an order confirmation from Go-Daddy and though it appears to look very authentic -it's anything but that. The email includes Go-Daddy's official phone number and logo...
They say that what you don't know can't hurt you. But when it comes to identity theft, that's simply not true. Number one on today's list of things you may not already know that most certainly CAN hurt you: used...
Last month I blogged about a proposed financial reform amendment sponsored by Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) The amendment to the Financial Reform Bill would create an Office of Homeowner Advocate to assist...
The rules that President Obama signed into law last year that are supposed to regulate the credit card industry, have, so far, not done a whole lot for the average monthly bill-paying consumer. Now, though, the Federal Reserve has announced...
The creation of a newly proposed loan program could help as many as 400,000 unemployed homeowners avoid foreclosure. Essentially, homeowners who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own would be provided a loan for two years while...
Wall Street's greedy and reckless behavior has let to 8 million job losses, millions of foreclosures, and trillions of dollars of lost wealth. It's time to rein them in, and we're down to the last few weeks of debate. Help...
The true impact of the massive Gulf Coast oil spill will not be realized for years to come. Families along the coast are suffering unimaginable losses and sadness after the explosion that 50+ days ago claimed the lives of 11...
Millions of homeowners face losing their homes due to the economy and the continuing mortgage and foreclosure crises. Unfortunately though, as an array of stories on this blog and elsewhere demonstrate, homeowners continue to be pushed out of their homes...
American Consumers vs. Lawyers, Foreclosure Mills, and our Judicial System How EMC, FDLG and mortgage servicing madness altered my life -forever. By Guest Blogger: Tammy Cothran ...I am a hard working American, born and raised in this great country; a...
Bank of America has agreed to pay $108 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that the bank's Countrywide Financial mortgage subsidiary collected excessive fees from struggling homeowners and engaged in other abusive practices in the years before...
A jury awarded Allen Jones over 1.5 million dollars for violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Representatives from Advance Call Center Technologies not only continued to harass Jones to pay the non-existent debt, a debt of less than $200...
Unfortunately whenever a tragedy occurs, whether it be related to a man-made catastrophe such as what's happening now in the Gulf coast, or as a result of a violent strike from Mother Nature via a tornado, earthquake, tsunami, wild fire,...
A memoir exposing the steep price consumers pay when facing mortgage servicing errors, inaccurate credit reporting, illegal debt collection practices, identity theft and weak consumer protection laws. THE BOOK » DENISE'S STORY »
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