ECheck Fraud Tied To Mortgage Processors

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I noticed a suspicious charge for $29.95 hit my bank account. It is an ECheck (NOT an ACH) with a very large check number (554734). The monies was paid to a company called Global Web that left a 1-877 number. I looked through my bank history and found another suspicious charge, again an ECheck for $29.95.

I called my bank and they are working on resolving one of the charges, the other is too old to fix. I also have to change my bank account number and get new checks.

I started googling and found a LOT of information. Here is what I have so far:

Customers of the following mortgage companies:

Everhome
Franklin American
Cenlar
Taylor Bean & Whitaker
VHDA
Ocwen

Are reporting that their account information is being stolen. These customers are receiving fraudulent charges directly to their bank accounts in the form of EChecks. Often these EChecks contain the wrong name and address for the bank account, but this doesn't matter since the routing number and account number are correct. The company filing the ECheck has several aliases:

Global Web
Web Entertainment
FT Class World
BBU
Platinum World Group
READY CASH
Global One
DBA Services
BSU Services
ASYSGLOBAL
Online World Entertainment
Billing Solutions Inc.

Here are links to various forums with hundreds of reports from customers that had their account information stolen. The common thread to all of these complaints, is that all of these people have loans serviced by the above mentioned mortgage companies. These mortgage companies all use the same payment processor, Lender Processing Services, Inc.

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-456-5175
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-456-5171
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-211-1744
http://creditboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=467910
https://forums.collectors.com/messagepost.cfm?postaction=reply&catid=26&threadid=817656&messid=9492354&STARTPAGE=1&ezquote=y&parentid=9492354
http://creditboards.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=467910
http://www.flyfishinginnh.com/vforum/showthread.php?t=6309
https://takesallkinds.wordpress.com/tag/biller-initiated-check-payment/
http://takesallkinds.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/followup-on-the-global-web-bank-fraud-affaire/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/ft-class-world/silver-springs-nevada-89429/ft-class-world-bbu-silver-shield-services-electronically-withdrew-money-from-my-account-w-695635
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/platinum-world-group/silver-springs-nevada-/platinum-world-group-same-address-as-bbu-fraudulent-electronic-check-silver-springs-neva-694405
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-Fraudulent-Check-Silver-Springs-Nevada-695503
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-Fraudulent-Electronic-Check-Another-Victim-Silver-Springs-Nevada-695697
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-fraudulent-electronic-check-charges-Silver-Springs-Nevada-695714
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-Fraudulant-check-writers-Silver-Springs-Nevada-696550
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-Fraudulant-Electronic-Check-Writer-Silver-Springs-Nevada-697190
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-89429/Platinum-World-Group-Unauthorized-check-someone-inside-Cenlar-Silver-Springs-Nevada--698313
http://www.scambook.com/group/comments/543/CC-Global
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/directory/bbu-interservices
http://www.scambook.com/report/view/35720/CC-Global-Complaint-35720-for-$1.00
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Platinum-World-Group/Silver-Springs-Nevada-/Platinum-World-Group-Same-address-as-BBU-Fraudulent-Electronic-Check-Silver-Springs-Neva-694405
http://www.scambook.com/company/reports/16956/CC-Global
http://www.scambook.com/group/view/543/CC-Global

All of these reports point back to Lender Processing Services, Inc., there is obviously a huge security hole that none of the companies involved have admitted to existing. Customers continue to receive fraudulent charges, which forces them to change their bank account information.

What can I do? I feel powerless. My bank doesn't care about anything other than refunding one of the charges. I called my loan company and they assured me their site is secure. I called LPS and they assured me it's secure. I called LPS's parent company and they assured me its secure.

Obviously its not! What can be done to fix this?

Other info:

Some phone numbers they have used:
877-208-6308
877-456-5175
866-326-3569
877-456-5171
866 613 6434
866-326-3568
866-326-3570

Secret Service Agent that is supposedly on the case:
Jenna Horton (602-241-4319)

The group seems to target one particular strip mall in Nevada for their fake addresses. Store owners have received "at least 100 calls".

The fraud checks are viewable with online banking for a short time, and then are no longer viewable. My bank can't even pull up the image for it.

One of the addresses given matches the address in this CEASE AND DECIST letter from the state of Nevada:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffid.state.nv.us%2FNotices%2F2009%2F2009-06-12_CD_CreditProtectionDepotIncCreditPaymentServicesInc.pdf&ei=SlnoUfKXGIKw8QS8joGQCg&usg=AFQjCNHRkYznNyT8kpJq3euHTvXwmVUhAw&sig2=iEB33P9yxmk6lVd70IHkcA&bvm=bv.49478099,d.eWU

Many of the aliases are connected to a company called Silver Shield, that creates anonymity for companies.

Here is an example login page for a Lender Processing Services, Inc backed mortgage company:

https://carenet.fnfismd.com/everhome/ACCLogin.jsp

This company is getting called because their name is similar to one being used on the ECheck. They put an advisory on their main page:

http://www.globalweb.net/members/fraud-alert/fraud-alert.asp

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