75 % of the fraud posts were for commercial debt collections or commercial equipment purchases (where a real business is impersonated), 11 % were personal business
loan collection frauds, 9 % were separation agreement scams, 3 % were IP or copyright infringement scams, 1 % were employee injury or dismissal frauds and 1 % real estate bad cheque scams.
Not exact matches
The routine uses of this information include, but are not limited to, its disclosure to federal, state, or local agencies, to private parties such as relatives, present and former employers, business and personal associates, to consumer reporting agencies, to financial and educational institutions, and to guaranty agencies in order to verify your identity, to determine your eligibility to receive a
loan or a benefit on a
loan, to permit the servicing or
collection of your
loan (s), to enforce the terms of the
loan (s), to investigate possible
fraud and to verify compliance with federal student financial aid program regulations, or to locate you if you become delinquent in your
loan payments or if you default.
And even though Corinthian was accused of
fraud and predatory lending practices, many of its former students are facing debt
collection and struggling to have their student
loans forgiven.
Be on the look - out for
frauds involving
collections, small business
loans and real estate or mortgage transactions
loans for commercial purposes.
Kathleen P. Hyland represents consumers coping with auto
fraud, mortgage
fraud, debt
collection issues, and student
loan problems.
There are two common
fraud scenarios we are seeing, business
loan fraud and debt
collection fraud.
All lawyers are being targeted with bad cheque
frauds: We're getting reports of
frauds that appear to be personal or business
collection matters, spousal support
collections, business
loans and IP licence disputes.
Spousal support, general
collections,
loan transactions and real estate matters can all be used as the front for one of these
frauds.
As I detailed in a previous SLAW post, litigators are being targeted on debt
collection frauds and business lawyers are being targeted on business
loan frauds.