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Originally Posted by chuckhs12
I have recieved a reply from HSBC and they are claiming that I am committing fraud. I asked for verification of the debt and supplied a promissory note to accomodate the debt if valid.
They then replied to me with an injunction UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. the Dorean Group, The Oxford Trust, and Universal Trust.
Stating that I was commiting the similar acts such as 18 U.S.C. ss 1341 (Mail Fraud), 18 U.S.C. ss 1343 (Wire Fraud), and 18 U.S.C. (Bank Fraud).
I don't know where they are getting thier basis for this, but never the less they are trying it.
I am wondering if anyone else has run into the same or similar issue?
Thanks,
Chuck.
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I think more people who try this approach are about to see these kinds of threats. Dorean lost that one and it's being citied in a slew of other similar civil cases.
Presentment of bogus conditional promissory notes is a hot topic in the creditor's bar now that the two principals of the Dorean scam (basically the same thing but tying it in with a trust and mortgages instead of CC debt) are in jail and awaiting trial on the related federal charges.
In a lot of previous individual cases, it simply wasn't worth the time and money to drag a lone rogue debtor into a civil trial when the defendant had nothing to go after. They were content to just let it go to default then sell it off to the blood-suckers as a cost of doing business.
But now since taking part in the same kind of process is actually being prosecuted in a criminal case they seem to have grasped on a potential weapon in threatening to turn over their findings to the US Attorney for similar criminal investigations and even prosecution.
The real question is whether or not the US Attorney's office has the time and resources to do much more than put it in the growing pile with all the other relatively low-dollar scams.
Then again, to discourage copy-cats, they may want to make a few more highly-public examples like they do with the tax cases from time to time.