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Old 05-04-2010, 09:12 PM   #18
puckluck
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
Is that really being duped though? Someone asks to pay you so that you use your name for the mortgage and you simply say "yes". I fail to see the trickery here. Sounds like someone just got greedy and thought it was easy money?
The trickery is when the Mortgage broker or whoever tries to get a mortgage way above the value of the house.

So a house that is worth $350 k is being mortgaged for $400 k and then they take the difference of $50 k and pocket it.
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