Be on alert in Nevada. If you receive a letter telling you that your mortgage servicer has changed and instructing you to send payments to a different address, check in with your old servicer before making the move.
In Nevada, two men have been arrested for such a scam. Joseph Yorkus and James Bartczak set up a company called “Great Western Business Services” designed to accept mortgage payments from homeowners. However, in reality, those homeowners’ mortgages would not have moved, and Yorkus and Bartczak could have cashed those checks while the properties in question slid into foreclosure. An employee of Great Western ultimately brought down the scheme when she realized that the company was stealing money rather than servicing mortgages. Currently Yorkus and Bartczak have only been charged, not convicted of the fraud.
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