{"id":1316,"date":"2007-12-21T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2007-12-21T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T15:05:49","slug":"online-video-helps-troubled-borrowers-spot-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/online-video-helps-troubled-borrowers-spot-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Online video helps troubled borrowers spot fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fraudsters are targeting troubled borrowers facing foreclosure in a scheme that could leave homeowners with even more debt than they otherwise would face, a new online video warns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the video that dramatizes a common case of fraud, a homeowner receives an unsolicited offer to help settle mortgage debt but ends up homeless and with battered credit.<\/p>\n<p>Under a common scheme, a con artist will seek out a public notice of foreclosure and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Court-puts-stop-on-online-check-firm\/2100-7348_3-6121911.html?tag=st.nl\" title=\"Court puts stop on online check firm -- Monday, Oct 2, 2006\">approaches the potential victim with documents<\/a> and the promise of sorting out the debt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You sign, thinking you are saving your home but you are really giving the con artist the deed to your house,&#8221; according to the video called Avoid Fraud, which can be found on the Internet site YouTube (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/avoidfraud\">click here for link to video<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>To see the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Online-video-helps-troubled-borrowers-spot-fraud\/2100-1029_3-6222656.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters are targeting troubled borrowers facing foreclosure in a scheme that could leave homeowners with even more debt than they otherwise would face, a new online video warns. In the video that dramatizes a common case of fraud, a homeowner receives an unsolicited offer to help settle mortgage debt but ends up homeless and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}