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Braver
v. Ameriquest
“In
his Third Amended Complaint, Mr. Braver has alleged facts
which, if true, establish that mortgage spam was intentionally
transmitted to his Oklahoma servers for the purpose of generating
commercially marketable Oklahoma mortgage leads. When Mr.
Braver replied to the mortgage spam messages, he received
mortgage solicitation communications from defendant Ameriquest.
Stecroft purchased spam-generated Oklahoma mortgage leads
knowing or actively avoiding knowledge that they were generated
by spam. Stecroft sold spam-generated Oklahoma mortgage
leads to the defendant Ameriquest for commercial gain. The
complex chains of sellers and re-sellers of the spam-generated
mortgage leads were intentionally created so as to allow
business such as Stecroft and Ameriquest to benefit from
unlawful methods of lead generation while insulating themselves
from liability for those unlawful methods.”
-- Order denying defendant Stecroft Holdings Inc.'s Motion
to Dismiss, October 13, 2006
Braver
vs. Ameriquest Mortgage Corporation et al
Partial Case Docket & Documents
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Ameriquest/Mortgage
Spam in the News
July 29, 2005
- Boiler Room Bust: Hatch Investigating Ameriquest
For those
not familiar, Ameriquest is a boiler room outfit
(contrary to the "baseball-n-apple pie" image
their well-crafted ads and sponsorships suggest) that makes
liberal use of spam, telemarketing and other sketchy, high
pressure tactics to solicit customers and originate loans
- these are the people that call you at home, and if you
reply to mortgage spam, odds are Ameriquest will
be one of the first to call - we tried it. Link
to full article.
January 24,
2005 - Quicken, Ameriquest, New Century, Others Rely On Spam
When the originators
called, I informed them I had filled out several “applications”
for properties I owned and asked which property they were
calling about. Once I knew this piece of information, I
informed them I was writing this article... The forth call
was from a loan officer named Blain working for Ameriquest
Mortgage Company. When I explained the situation and
asked to speak with a manager... I was transferred to someone
named Ron who claimed to be a manager and refused to give
me his last name. He harshly accused me of harassing them
and hung up the phone. Link
to full article.
Oct. 18, 2004
- PC WORLD - Spam Slayer: Tracking Spam to its Source
Finding mortgage-related
pitches in my inbox was no big surprise. After all, loan-related
spam has increased 42 percent over last year, making it
the fastest-growing category of spam... In an effort to
understand the sordid world of mortgage spam, I responded
to several of the many such messages that flood my inbox.
I discovered that clicking and responding to these messages
led to callbacks from well-known lenders like Ameriquest
and Quicken Loans...
How the heck
did a reputable company like Quicken Loans get mixed up
with such a blatant spammer? Quicken Loans later told me
the mortgage lead came from GoApply.com [d/b/a eleadz.com],
a company with which Quicken Loans had a business relationship.
GoApply.com was "fully aware they [were] in violation
of their contract with us and we have suspended all business
with them," a Quicken Loans spokesperson says.
Bad mortgage
leads from MLeads resulted in Quicken Loans "terminating"
a contract with the firm last year, Stapp says. "We
found MLeads violated our contract," he says, explaining
that Quicken Loans ended the relationship because MLeads
turned out to not to be generating leads itself, instead
relying on third-party firms that used bulk e-mail.
Link
to full article.
Aug.
8, 2003 - Who profits from spam? Surprise
There wouldn’t
be spam if there wasn’t money in spam. So to understand
what primes the spam economy, MSNBC.com answered a single
unsolicited commercial e-mail. Following this one spam trail
led us from Alabama to Argentina, from a tiny Birmingham-based
firm and someone named “Erp” past a notorious
spammer named Super-Zonda — and right through big-name
companies like Ameriquest, Quicken Loans, and LoanWeb.
Link
to full article.
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