1. Mortgage Scammers on the Rise in America.
Most Americans have a dream of owning a house with the white Pickett fence; it is
safe to say that this is the American dream. In February of 2001 first time home owners
were invited to some seminars one of the seminars was held at The Holiday Inn in New
York City. The seminar showed videos of home owners that had used Anvil to obtain a
mortgage. These testimonials were so convincing and wonderful to see that anyone
looking at them would certainly want to learn how they themselves could become one of
the people in the videos. This was a very exciting opportunity to say the least because
With an Anvil Mortgage no one checked your credit so anyone that wasn’t able to get a
conventional mortgage from Chase Manhattan bank, The Lending Tree, FHA, Quicken
loans etc. had nothing to worry about because Anvil would give them a loan to buy a
house.
The next part of this scam yes that is what Anvil was a corrupt Mortgage company
that made promises that were lies. They asked for $500.00-$700.00 for an application fee.
Then attorney General Sptitzer was at the head of the court case that put a freeze on
Anvil. In two years Anvil collected 14,000 application fees that totaled 7 million dollars.
Anvil closed on more than 450 mortgage loans. People thought that they were on there
way toward the American dream, but they really were on their way to a nightmare. Anvil
Mortgage Bank, Ltd and its Principal Eric G Kotch, collected millions of dollars from
first time home owners that wanted own a home so badly that they entered into a scam.
The Bank was in Rockland County and the seminars were held in Brooklyn, Queens,
Bronx, Manhattan, Yonkers and Uniondale. According to scambusters.org the Mortgage
company scams are becoming increasingly larger there are three new scams that are
becoming more prevalent.
1. Equity Stripping or bailout: this is a good one for the scam artist and very sad for the
person that fall victim to the scam. The homeowner is actually convinced to surrender
his or her house. The homeowner is told that they can stay on as a renter and buy
back the house later. This will never happen the con artist will get the house and the
homeowner just lost his or her home.

2. 2. Phantom help: is just what the name implies help that never comes. The rescuer or
con artist charges very high fees to make phone calls and paperwork that the
homeowner could have done on his her own. The worst part of this scam is that the
homeowner is encouraged to ignore phone calls from the lender or its agents this will
surely make the home foreclose in the end.
3, Bait switch: this is where the scammers act like they are housing counselors. They
have large amounts of legal documents for new loans that will help the homeowner
solve their problems. The homeowner sadly enough signs forged documents that give
the scammers ownership over the home. The victims have just signed over their home
and they still owe a mortgage.
In still another mortgage scam a trio of con artists will pay $18.8 million to settle
Federal Trade charges that they and their company cheated homeowners that were
struggling to pay their mortgages out of money. Sean Zauser, David Zauser, David J.
Feingold and First Universal Lending LLC were accused by the FTC of preying upon
home owners that were struggling and practically destitute. In addition to the 19
million in penalties the defendants who were residents of Palm Beach Gardens
Florida were all banned from the mortgage modification business. The scam went
something like this according to FTC, the scammers convinced the helpless
homeowners to stop making their mortgage payments, claiming falsely that lenders
would refuse to negotiate unless they fell at least a few months behind in their
payments.
The U.S. Attorney Generals Office in Minnesota charged 2 locals in a multi-
million dollar Mortgage scam. Lance is accused of submitting mortgage applications
that misrepresented buyer’s actual finances. The false documents led to loans being
approved and loan proceeds being disbursed to title companies. Lance and others then
had title companies put a portion of the proceeds into accounts not associated with the
buyers in an attempt to hide kickbacks, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Lance received $200,000 for helping buyers get loans for 26 properties. He faces up
to 20 years in prison. Lindsay Rae Loyear was charged with one count of conspiracy

3. to commit mortgage frauds for her alleged role in a scheme to defraud lenders out of
more than 5 million dollars.
Why do people fall for mortgage scams? If a person is ready to foreclose on their
home and someone is offering them a way to save their home it is very easy to
become a victim. In the case of a person that wants a home so badly and a company is
offering a mortgage and promising to bypass poor credit it is also very easy to
become a victim. The trick is to wait until you can get a mortgage from a reputable
company or bank beware of mortgage predators. Homes are very expensive in some
areas of America for example it is difficult to find a home that is below $300,00.00 in
New York City, and the interest rates are sometimes as high as 6.5% I believe that is
why mortgage scam businesses are so rampant in America at this time. It is important
to stay away from companies that are offering deals that are too good to be true that
means that the deal is probably not true. We all hope to reach the American dream
one day of being a home owner if that dream is reached later than sooner that is fine,
because if you fall prey to a scam the dream will never be reached.