Mortgage fraud can happen to you

Morton J. Grabel, Esq.

Special to The Village News

Every day thousands of people nationwide are cheated out of money through questionable loan modification programs, false identifications by fakers claiming they are the true homeowners, and other forms of fraudulent actions.

The mortgage industry as a whole, including escrow and title companies, are under close scrutiny these days because of those questionable lending practices and other legal entanglements such as making home loans and mortgages to individuals with fraudulent identities, negligently allowing the bad guys to take millions of d...