Customer Case Studies
Mortgage and Real Estate Identity Theft
In 2005, Anita was beginning the process of buying a home, and started by applying for a mortgage online. As it turned out, the website was a part of an elaborate Phishing Scam utilized by identity thieves to fraudulently obtain real estate. Unaware of the scam, Anita proceeded with her loan process while strangers were taking advantage of her good credit. These identity thieves used Anita’s information to obtain five mortgages and purchase four properties in her name, all within one week.
The next month, when Anita began applying for loans, she discovered the five active mortgages, totaling $896,000, all stemming from the application she filled out online. The mortgages all went into foreclosure and subsequently ruined Anita’s credit and her ability to obtain credit for the loan she needed. After filing a police report and having the perpetrator arrested, Anita ensured her thief would spend the next seven years behind bars for ID Theft and Mortgage Fraud.
However, simply catching the thief would not repair her severely damaged credit. Faced with the overwhelming task of calling creditors and mortgage brokers, Anita turned to ID Watchdog for help. Nearly a year after the initial theft, she enlisted our ID Rehab resolution services to help her remove the fraudulent accounts from her record. ID Watchdog was able to resolve all of the fraudulent records from her credit records and repaired here public record files. Now, Anita has the chance to get on with her life with a clean record, once again.
Anita knows that, while ID Watchdog has prepared the damage from this particular incident, she is not immune from becoming an identity theft victim ever again. For this reason, she trusts her identity with ID Watchdog’s monthly monitoring, detection and resolution service. If she were to ever fall victim to identity theft again, ID Watchdog would catch the suspicious activity immediately, and provide our proven resolution services, if necessary. For Anita Jantz, who has experienced the whirlwind nightmare of identity theft firsthand, the decision to protect herself with ID Watchdog is a no-brainer.
A phishing scam could’ve ruined Anita Jantz’s life, but ID Watchdog proved that it didn’t have to.
We all know that the Internet can be a dangerous place. Many folks are still wary of the anonymous nature of web-based transactions, and rightly so. The ability for fraudsters to pose as legitimate entities makes it easy for them to take advantage of unknowing consumers with little risk of being caught. Anita Jantz fell victim to one of these scammers, and it turned her life upside-down until she found ID Watchdog.In 2005, Anita was beginning the process of buying a home, and started by applying for a mortgage online. As it turned out, the website was a part of an elaborate Phishing Scam utilized by identity thieves to fraudulently obtain real estate. Unaware of the scam, Anita proceeded with her loan process while strangers were taking advantage of her good credit. These identity thieves used Anita’s information to obtain five mortgages and purchase four properties in her name, all within one week.
The next month, when Anita began applying for loans, she discovered the five active mortgages, totaling $896,000, all stemming from the application she filled out online. The mortgages all went into foreclosure and subsequently ruined Anita’s credit and her ability to obtain credit for the loan she needed. After filing a police report and having the perpetrator arrested, Anita ensured her thief would spend the next seven years behind bars for ID Theft and Mortgage Fraud.
However, simply catching the thief would not repair her severely damaged credit. Faced with the overwhelming task of calling creditors and mortgage brokers, Anita turned to ID Watchdog for help. Nearly a year after the initial theft, she enlisted our ID Rehab resolution services to help her remove the fraudulent accounts from her record. ID Watchdog was able to resolve all of the fraudulent records from her credit records and repaired here public record files. Now, Anita has the chance to get on with her life with a clean record, once again.
Anita knows that, while ID Watchdog has prepared the damage from this particular incident, she is not immune from becoming an identity theft victim ever again. For this reason, she trusts her identity with ID Watchdog’s monthly monitoring, detection and resolution service. If she were to ever fall victim to identity theft again, ID Watchdog would catch the suspicious activity immediately, and provide our proven resolution services, if necessary. For Anita Jantz, who has experienced the whirlwind nightmare of identity theft firsthand, the decision to protect herself with ID Watchdog is a no-brainer.
