5 people pleaded guilt in federal court Thursday for their part in a homebuilder mortgage fraud scheme that involved false loan applications, kickbacks and duping investors. Twin brothers Anthony B. Grant and Antonio B. Grant, 43, both of Simpsonville, and their business partner Michael D. Holmes, 37, of Lawrenceville, Ga., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to [...]
New report out show people stealing mail from mailboxes and getting personal identity information. Perps take outgoing mail from the victims’ mailboxes. From there the perps use that information to commit fraud. Crooks aquire checking account information to manufacture counterfeit checks. Checks were used to make purchases at malls ans stores. See Article:http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2010/03/18/local_news/doc4ba1811e01577664493204.txt Share on [...]
Newly charged in the case are attorney Joseph Miller, 63 of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Peter Hartofilis, 33, of Flushing, NY, Robert Hofler, 52, of Pembroke Pines, FL, and Steve Vento, 41, of Jupiter, FL. All of the defendants are charged with conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud by submitting false mortgage loan applications [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme targeting retirees in California and Illinois by inviting them to estate planning seminars and later coaxing them to buy promissory notes for purported Turkish investments. The SEC alleges that USA Retirement Management Services ( USARMS ) and managing [...]
The Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) issued and served an Immediate Final Order to Cease and Desist all mortgage loan modification services to: • Clear Image Financial Group, Inc., 5910 Benjamin Center Drive, Suite 110, Tampa, FL 33634 and its principals Jeff S. Stampfli, Christopher Jones, and Tasha Armstrong Merkling. The orders charge that [...]
Florida Investment company Bilking Hawaii Investors It began when the FBI and the state securities commissioner’s office received tips about Rakotonanahary, who was president and chief executive of Cyber Market Group LLC, authorities said. According to the indictment, Rakotonanahary marketed a foreign currency investment plan, dubbed ”Promissory Program,” in which investors would loan his firm [...]
Watch for Fraud Pyramid Schemes like this one in your state: The State of Montana is trying to stop an alleged pyramid scheme from operating. The State Auditor has issued a Cease and Desist order against a company that has reportedly taken more than $1.8 million from participating residents. After many phone calls and complaints [...]
Debit Card Fraud 1: A thin piece of rigid film (usually in the form of a section of x-ray film), is cut and shaped then inserted into the area where you insert your card. It is shaped in such a way that a small “ sleeve ” traps the card and prevents it from being [...]
The chairman of an ‘Irvine investment’ firm and his girlfriend were arrested this morning on federal wire fraud charges that accuse them of running a Ponzi scheme that collected $8 million from approximately 60 Korean-American victims who lived throughout California. Euirang Hwang, 36, and Sang Yi, 39, were arrested without incident at a house in [...]
According to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the “ popular scam trends for 2009 ” included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software. From the report, here’s a look at the top Internet scams of 2009: Internet Fraud Scams #1. Fake Pop-up Ads [...]
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