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CNN: Mortgage Scam
Ann Fulmer, VP Interthinx, in a story featured on CNN news and CNN.com relates how she went from a stay-at-home mom to working for Interthinx to help train law enforcement and the FBI about mortgage fraud.
NBC TV San Diego, CA
Connie Wilson, EVP Interthinx, and Ann Fulmer, VP Interthinx discuss mortgage fraud and its effect on the overall industry in this 2007 interview with NBC TV’s San Diego affiliate.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Front page Money section
This chart illustrates how mortgage fraudsters change their scams to adapt to prevention and detection advances.
Front page Money section
This chart illustrates how mortgage fraudsters change their scams to adapt to prevention and detection advances.
Catching Fraudsters ..."I was at a presentation, which talked about the integration of all the various tools into a useable product through a joint agreement between MERS and Interthinx."
Getting Rid of Fraud for Good..."A new business model holds the key to revolutionizing the mortgage industry and ending all mortgage fraud. Fraud is expensive and not just for its immediate victims."
Start Your Engines..."Think about AVMs and BPOs…There is widespread confusion as to the 'appropriate specialty tool'…To bridge the gap, a new specialty solution recently entered the marketplace…"
TECHNOLOGY TO AVOID THIS..."An excellent prefunding audit is the best prevention tool, "emphasized Connie Wilson, executive vice president of Interthinx. "It's mandatory to use a fraud prevention tool, but you also need to verify that the borrower is working where they say they are as well..."
MORTGAGE FRAUD: NEW AND IMPROVED..."But several scams still are effective, according to Jim Ronan of Interthinx, a provider to lenders of fraud-prevention services..."
RISK MANAGEMENT PRIMER ...“In the good old days, mortgage lending operations were largely local and, while not entirely without risk, fairly safe. Most lenders were closely regulated by state or federal…”
LOAN DATE FOCUS OF PROBE ...“When you securitize a pool of loans, you vouch for the quality of those loans,” said mortgage-fraud expert Constance Wilson of software firm Interthinx, Inc.”
OVERSTATING INCOME HELPED SINK MORTGAGE INDUSTRY …In an interview, interthinx Senior VP of Sales Jeff Moyer said the analysis was generated using an “income alert” ...
BORROWERS KEEP FUDGING THE FIGURES …Interthinx, a fraud detection firm, says it found suspiciously high incomes on many applications as recently as December.
Real Estate Rip-Off How Lehman Brothers was swindled out of $50 million.
Urban Myths and Legends
June 15, 2010
National Mortgage News Online
By Ann Fulmer
Vice President, Interthinx
By Ann Fulmer
Vice President, Interthinx
Urban myth: (n) a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false. This statement, by a purported fraud expert, reflected the prevailing attitude among lenders when it was published...
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