Sub-Prime Mortgage Servicer Ocwen fabricates Mortgage Documents

Apr 22, 2017

Ocwen is the bottom-feeder of mortgage servicing companies. Most survey’s rank Ocwen as the absolute worst in customer service and accountability including consumer research by J.D. Powers. Ocwen acts as a debt-collector and our experience at LendingLies is that Ocwen often cannot identify the true creditor or provide any documentation demonstrating who owns the loan. Ocwen then resorts to fabricating documents and obfuscation to keep the borrower in the dark until they can successfully foreclose. Why is the CFPB and Multi-State Mortgage Committee not investigating Ocwen’s fabrication of loan instruments?

Last year we had a client from Texas contact us who was dealing with Ocwen. He had pulled his paperwork and discovered that his loan was one of the Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW) fraudulent transactions, there was no evidence that the note had ever been endorsed, and there were no assignments from TBW to Ocwen. To overcome these issues Ocwen either photoshopped endorsements or assignments in-house, or went to a third party who creates fraudulent loan instruments and filed to foreclose.

The Lendinglies staff sent a copy of the note and assignment to a forensic document fraud examiner and he discovered that the “original” copies submitted by Ocwen were nothing more than computer-generated forgeries. We did a little more investigating and discovered that the “corrective” assignment of the Deed of Trust was signed by Ocwen employee Amber K. Wilson.

Amber K. Wilson was employed as a Servicing Operations Specialist at Ocwen since May 2015. Located in Iowa, Amber’s Linked-In profile stated that her current duties included, “Researching Mortgage Documents to verify a full Chain of Title is present. If it is not create the needed Documents (sic). Work from Excel Spread Sheet daily as well as several internal data programs.” Amber K. Wilson admitted on a public website that Ocwen Loan Servicing creates documents to create a “proper Chain of Title” if there are errors.

This is an admission that Ocwen employees are engaging in fraudulent activity by fabricating notes and assignments (the derogatory information has since been removed from her Linked-In profile but a screenshot of last year’s Linked-In profile is included below). Hopefully the CFPB and Multi-State Mortgage Committee who have filed lawsuits will investigate this type of criminal activity.

It is fraudulent to recreate a chain of assignment with fabricated documents to create the appearance the current servicer has standing. As Neil Garfield has repeatedly pointed out- copies of the note and assignment don’t document an actual transaction (sale, transfer)- they are nothing but window dressing to create the illusion an event occurred.

Our client was a victim of these sham documents Ocwen filed in the Tarrant county records. He has been fortunate enough to find an attorney who has successfully kept Ocwen at bay. Texas is involved in the multi-state effort to regulate large servicers across the country while ensuring compliance with applicable state and federal law, while protecting consumers.

Amber Wilson’s Linked-In profile where she admits fabricating loan instruments: