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I'll be on vacation for the holiday weekend, starting tomorrow. I'll be back Monday night, and will start posting again next week.
Happy (long) Memorial Day Weekend.
May 24, 2006.
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The Consumer Federation of America released the results of a new study this morning called "Exotic of Toxic? An Examination of the Non-Traditional Mortgage Market for Consumers and Lenders." The CFA analyzed borrower and loan characteristics of more than 100,000 mortgages originated between January…
Topics: mortgage
On yesterday's show, I said I'd post the links to stories about various scams that seem to be popping up like the plague. Here they are, in no particular order:
Online Romance Scam: www.thedenverchannel.com/nationalnews/9254847/detail.html
What's it like to live in Nigeria and be a scam artist? Take a…
Topics: fraud
As the spring blossoms are pushing up, so are new scams emerging. There's a new scam that's operating in some parts of the country involving teeth whiteners. But instead of getting their teeth whitened, folks are getting their bank accounts cleaned out. I'll have more on this scam and a few others…
Topics: selling
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