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There is a new check fraud scam in Southwest Florida. In the past few weeks, I have received numerous emails and phone calls from clients and potential clients regarding phone calls and messages they and members of their families have received on a check fraud investigation resulting from a payday advance. The callers allege that they are “investigators” and are investigating the debtors for check fraud for a loan from a payday advance that was not paid. The callers state the debtors need to return the call to prevent criminal charges. Some callers even go as far to say that a warrant has been issued and give fake case numbers for the court where the debtors live. As you can imagine, many people become extremely frightened and upset when they hear this.

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Hold onto your wallets, Fannie Mae is going to be asking the Federal Government for $10 billion to $16 billion. This request could be from the new bailout package depending upon when Congress sends the bill to President Obama for signing. This would be the first time that Fannie Mae received bailout funds unlike Freddie Mac which received $14 billion at the end of last year. Freddie Mac is expected to ask for another $35 billion dollars. Maybe they just ordered a corporate jet from France.

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Believe it or not, I am an optimist. I just cannot find anything optimistic to say about the stock market right now except, Thank God for Dollar Cost Averaging. In the last 15 months, we have managed to take the country further down the toilet than ever before. I say we, because we all must suffer some blame in this game. We voted these meat-heads into office, and we allowed them to create laws on our behalf and run our country. We also allowed them to put our country's future at risk by allowing Wall Street to run amok. Now we are beginning to pay the piper for being lazy. Our 401K plans have been on Nutri-System lately, and now they look like 201K plans.

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

Changes are coming to the Florida Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog whether you like it or not. It's time to kick the tires and light the fires and slap a new coat of paint on this puppy. We also might throw in some cool features like a new website and a new look for the Florida Injury and Accident Lawyer Blog as well.

So, keep your eyes peeled, and watch out for the new stuff. It may just hit you right between the eyes.

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Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's wife Cindy, has at least $200,000.00 in credit card debt with American Express. Somehow she was able to negotiate a zero percent interest rate. The amount owed on her credit cards could be as high as $500,000.00. This information has been disclosed by the McCains only recently.

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This post is submitted by Carmen Dellutri, Esq., Mr. Dellutri is a Board Certified Consumer Bankruptcy Attorney and founder of The Dellutri Law Group, P.A. and one of the founding members of the Bankruptcy Law Network, Credit Law Network, Mortgage Law Network and the Debt Law Network.

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last five years we have all seen or heard something identity theft. Hopefully, you have not been a victim of identity theft. If you have then you know what kind of horror story that follows. Although there has been quite a bit of information written about identity theft, many individuals haven't done enough about the problem.

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