FBI: Mortgage Fraud Is Rampant in U.S.
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WASHINGTON - Fraud is running rampant in the nation's mortgage industry, with nearly three times as many reports of suspicious activity so far this year compared with 2001, a top FBI official said Friday.   "It has the potential to be an epidemic," said Chris Swecker, FBI assistant director for criminal investigations...
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Description: Fannie Mae, the nation&#39;s largest source of financing for home mortgages, faces accusations of pervasive accounting problems.
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Regulators are trying to punish Wall Street for mortgage finance practices that expanded home ownership and spread risk among a host of new players Â but also may have duped borrowers and investors who supplied cash to fuel a housing boom that's turned bust.
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An increasing number of shady Web sites are offering to make insolvent home buyers in the United States more attractive to lenders.
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NEW YORK -- Throughout 2006, T. Rowe Price analyst Susan Troll watched in horror as one risky mortgage deal after another hit the market. She became alarmed by a widening trend: mortgage lenders issuing home loans of poor quality that were then packaged and sold by Wall Street investment banks to...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and investments spun off of those loans
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Identity thieves may have obtained information on thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage and student loan customers.
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The FBI is looking for someone sending bogus information that caused the National Weather Service to issue unnecessary warnings, and forecasters worried that such alarms won't be taken seriously, authorities said Monday.
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Would-be borrowers in the U.S. and Canada are being bilked out of thousands of dollars by unscrupulous online lenders.
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Reports of suspected mortgage fraud have doubled since 2005, and government agencies that investigate and prosecute such cases say they cannot keep up.
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The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, a trend that signals many homeowners are increasingly unable to make timely payments on their mortgages or sell their homes amid a national housing slump.
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Lenders launched foreclosure actions against more than one in every 200 U.S. mortgage borrowers in the fourth quarter of 2006, the biggest share of homes at the start of the repossession process on record.
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The FBI is looking for suspects in a scam that uses bomb threats to extort money from banks and stores, officials told CNN. For the past week, banks and stores in 12 states have been hit by the scam, in which a caller claims there is a bomb that can be detonated if workers don't wire money to a specific account.
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The FBI&#39;s Salt Lake City office said Friday that Utah&#39;s high rate of mortgage fraud has become the focus of its campaign to combat a host of white-collar crimes committed against financial institutions.
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An internal FBI audit has found the agency violated rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data on domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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A record number of homeowners with high-cost mortgages have fallen behind on their payments or are facing foreclosure, a side effect of the growth in lending to people with poor credit, according to an industry group survey released yesterday.
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The FBI possibly violated the law or  its rules more than 1,000 times since 2002 in collecting data  about phone calls, e-mails and financial records while  investigating terrorism or espionage suspects, FBI officials  said on Thursday.