Most people do not know, or, recognize that what happened to them was a white-collar crime, also known as fraud.

They also don't know that it's a criminal offense. Some crimes carry more severe penalties than others. Nevertheless, too many victims are denied justice and often told by authorities that it's a civil matter when it's actually a felony crime defined by the criminal code.

Typical White-Collar Crimes

Effects of White-Collar Crime

White-Collar Crime is a personal violation. Although there is no serious physical injury, victims typically suffer emotional harm after losing their:

• Financial security
• Family home
• Business
• Inheritance
• Retirement savings
• Children’s educational funds
• Professional or personal credibility

1. Real Estate,Crimes, Scams, Frauds:
The recording of a false or forged grant deed, deed of trust, and note, or anything else that effects title to real property. It is a felony offense punishable with imprisonment. See foreclosure fraud below.

2. Bankruptcy-related crimes:
A broad range of frauds occur in the bankruptcy system. One of the more serious to victims of white-collar crimes are the perpetrator washing their hands of their crime in bankruptcy court and no one or nothing can stop them because the US Trustee's Office will tell the victim it's a civil matter and so the victim is forced once again to litigate the crime. Another form of crime are the trustee's that administer cases abusing their position to profit off debtors. Also, people or companies filing false claims against debtors to get money from the estate.

3. Identity Theft:
The fastest growing crime in America. Almost all other forms of fraud involve identity theft, especially Real Estate Fraud. It is the use of another person's identity for fraud. Statistically, it's family-on-family crimes.

4. Mortgage Fraud:
To engage in an act or pattern of activity wherein one obtains proceeds from an insurance company through deception.

5. Extortion:
Occurs when one person illegally obtains property from another by actual or threat, force, fear, or violence, or under cover of official right. This can include an unlawful foreclosure.

6. Foreclosure Fraud and Scams:
This is a huge problem and most victims don't real what was done to them is a crime. Among some of the common crimes include "experts/investors" go to your home offering to bail you out of your problems. People have been scammed out of their homes. Another is a foreclosure company doing the straw buyer routine to steal your home. click the link for the scams.

7. Blackmail:
A demand for money or other consideration under threat to do bodily harm, to injure property, to accuse of a crime, or to expose secrets.

8. Larceny/Theft:
When a person wrongfully takes another person's money or property with the intent to appropriate, convert or steal it.

9. Embezz1ement:
When a person who has been entrusted with money or property appropriates it for his or her own use and benefit. This can include people with a power of attorney for another person, especially the elderly or feeble.

10. Racketeering:
The operation of an illegal business for personal profit.

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