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Countrywide To Fixed Rate Customer: Your Mortgage Is About To Adjust!
Countrywide either doesn't know, or doesn't care that reader Graham has a fixed rate mortgage, because they keep sending him "notices" that his mortgage is about to "adjust." More »

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Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold'

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2:45 PM on Fri Sep 12 2008
By Ben Popken
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Ex-Countrywide Employee Sells Your Data, They Offer Credit Monitoring Service, Hang Up When You Ask For It
Re: Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold," Reader Esqdork writes, "Yesterday, I phoned Countrywide to get them to extend the credit monitoring service [that they offered in their apology letter] to my co-borrower and was promptly hung up on." The only surprise here is that they even picked up in the first place.

12:18 PM on Thu Sep 11 2008
By Ben Popken
5,674 views, 21 comments

Most discussed grungyparadigm: But... they sent a letter just to the borrower, not the co-borrower. If it was just the borrower's information that more »
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Countrywide Sends Fraud Alert Letters: 'Your Info May Have Been Sold'

A Countrywide customer emailed to tell us he received an unpleasant surprise in the mail today: a former Countrwide employee may have sold his loan info.

I received a letter from Countrywide today that says:

"We are writing to inform you that we recently became aware that a Countrywide employee (now former) may have sold unauthorized personal information about you to a third party...
More »

6:57 PM on Tue Sep 9 2008
By Chris Walters
30,044 views, 56 comments

Most discussed IamNotToddDavis: Speaking as an employee of a company who provides ID theft restoration services and consultation and as such has not more »
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Homeowners Sue Countrywide!
Who isn't suing Countrywide lately? Phuong Cat Le from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that a group of homeowners are now suing Countrywide, alleging that the lender steered them toward high-risk loans without disclosing the inherent risks. More »

5:20 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Meg Marco
8,011 views, 46 comments

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Donald Trump Saves Ed McMahon From Foreclosure!
Donald Trump doesn't know Ed McMahon, but he "grew up watching him on tv," so he'd like to be his new landlord. McMahon is currently facing foreclosure from Countrywide, and had 2 weeks to sell his house before the bank repossessed it. Mr. Trump has agreed to buy the house and lease it to McMahon, says the LA Times. More »

11:29 AM on Fri Aug 15 2008
By Meg Marco
8,521 views, 44 comments

Latest by mariospants: Either McMahon borrowed too much money against his house or someone's math is off... regardless of how much Ed will more »
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Throwdown! Connecticut Sues Countrywide For Deceptive Lending
Someone ring a bell because Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has just sued Countrywide (and, of course, Bank of America) for deceptive lending practices. They're seeking damages of $100,000 for each violation, as well as "up to $5,000 per violation of state consumer protection laws, disgorgement of all ill-gotten gains and an order compelling the company to cease its illegal practices." More »

4:59 PM on Thu Aug 7 2008
By Meg Marco
7,315 views, 46 comments

Latest by jswilson64: I like the Google ad for Countrywide that accompanies this story... more »
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Former Countrywide Employee Arrested For Stealing, Selling Customer Identities
The FBI has announced that a former Countrywide employee and his accomplice were arrested on charges related to "illegal access of computers containing personal information," and "illegal sale of the data." A criminal complaint filed last Friday alleges that one of the men, Rene L. Rebollo Jr., a senior financial analyst for Countrywide Home Loan's subprime mortgage division (who was let go in July), had been harvesting data from Countrywide's computers for the past two years — downloading and storing the information on personal flash drives. More »

9:59 AM on Mon Aug 4 2008
By Meg Marco
10,598 views, 27 comments

Latest by LAbattlezone: As one of the recipients of the "Dear ---, We are so sorry your personal information was stolen by our more »
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If My Bank Collapses, How Long Before The FDIC Pays Up?
If your FDIC-insured bank implodes, how long does it take for the FDIC to start paying depositors? Ever since IndyMac imploded, the question has no doubt been on many people's minds. One reader emailed me saying that he had asked the his banker about how long it might take. Allegedly, the banker squirmed around before finally saying that the FDIC had 20 years to pay people back. This is not true. More »

5:58 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Ben Popken
14,600 views, 25 comments

Latest by Treefingers: @FHJay: Because trusting in a privatized central monetary system that SELLS money to the US government at INTEREST isnt wacko more »

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