SecuringIndustry informs MHProNews websites in California are selling fake documents that can be used to stall foreclosure proceedings on properties. The phony court documents claim the debt has been repaid or the trustee has been changed. Online ads claim the documents can tie up banks in administrative proceedings for years. Prosecutors are building fraud cases against four homeowners for filing phony documents, while clerks who handle filings now alert investigators . The Modesto Bee in Stanislaus County, just east of San Francisco, reviewed a website that claims its 2,600 customers have not made a mortgage payment in two years.

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