Sonoma County Bankruptcy Lawyer Blog

The California attorney general is charging the law firm Kramer and Kaslow with "prey(ing) on desperate consumer homeowners facing foreclosure" by selling participation in bogus "mass joinder" lawsuits and "litigation settlement(s)," but "No settlements exist and in some cases no lawsuit has even been filed,"
according to Courthouse News reports.

To get a feel for this, head on over to Kramer's site, which proudly proclaims:

Kramer & Kaslow is now asserting your legal rights through "mass action" litigation to force the banks to do what they should have done voluntarily and pay for their predatory lending tactics. The old "loss mitigation" process may not be working any more, but we have a new and better approach, where we aim to force the banks to settle as they face multi-plaintiff "mass joinder" lawsuits of national scope that will seek to give you financial relief if not void your mortgage loan entirely.

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So, I'm looking for a late-model Mini Cooper Clubman (it has a larger back seat and a half-decent cargo space). They're expensive. On Craigslist, most of the listings are from dealers and they run from $17K to $22K. There's very little in Santa Rosa or Petaluma or Sebastopol; they're mostly in the East Bay or South Bay, there's one dealer in Marin. Anyway, there's this one listing for $9900. $9900 for a 2008 Mini Clubman!

Suspicious, but what the hell. I email the person. And I get a respond the next day. I'll post the whole thread below, because I feel like I'm a relatively intelligent person about this and I came close to falling for this. What's important is that the seller advertised that the deal was safe because it would go through eBay's Vehicle Purchase Protection Program. The car has only 6,700 miles, she said, was obtained in a divorce and is priced low for a quick sale.

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