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The Complaint Resolution Program helps resolve complaints that consumers have filed after experiencing difficulty or disappointment in the California marketplace. The Consumer information Center is DCA's information resource center for consumers and licensees. Through its Call Center and Correspondence Unit, CIC provides consumers and licensees ...
The team develops resources, conducts educational presentations, including on timely or current financial fraud and scams, and helps connect consumers to our consumer services office when needed. They manage the CalMoneySmart grant program, [8] which awards California nonprofits with up to $100,000 in funding to execute financial literacy programs.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector.CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, and other financial companies operating in the ...
By Kerri Panchuk Mortgage fraud activity slowed overall in the third quarter, but California ranks first in home loan fraud, with the state seeing as much as $204.2 million in losses on deceptive ...
The Supreme Court of California clarified the statute in American Philatelic Soc. v. Claibourne, stating that "the rules of unfair competition" should protect the public from "fraud and deceit". [9] In 1962, a California appellate court reiterated this rule by stating that the UCL extended "equitable relief to situations beyond the scope of ...
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Field office staff investigates consumer complaints against licensed and unlicensed contractors. In fiscal year 2019–20, CSLB obtained more than $58 million in ordered restitution for consumers. CSLB's Statewide Investigative Fraud Team (SWIFT) focuses on the underground economy and on unlicensed contractors.
Two Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office employees have been demoted after supervisors discovered a backlog of 700-plus fraud complaints stretching back years. The result: Hundreds of cases cannot ...