Dennis Pease's Blog: Uncategorized

ePerks is one of those 3rd party lead generation companies and is probably the worst of the worst. Most of us despise these companies but you have got to read the lengths this company has gone to in order to silence a Blogger from discussing the way they do business and have treated people from his own blog.

The story has been posted on Active Rain and is one you really should check out since this is an infringement on our Freedom Of Speech rights.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/524339/ePerks-Sues-Blogger-To

EDIT 6/6/2008: More legal action is thrown out there, this time at Trace Richardson over at BrokerScience.com.

Also another real good article on this has been written by Andy Beard iHype & ePerks - How To Kill A Startup.

The F.B.I. and the Justice Department have opened a criminal inquiry into Countrywide Financial for securities fraud. The F.B.I. investigation will take a close look at how common fraud was in Countrywide's origination process.

Their management is suspected of misrepresenting the quality of its mortgages in routine securities filings, which would have caused investors to overvalue the loans that were used as securities worth more than $100 billion between 2004 and 2007.

This is part of a broader ongoing F.B.I. investigation involving many subprime lenders, loan officers, mortgage brokers, speculators, local and regional mortgage fraud rings, other housing professionals and Wall Street banks that packaged home loans into securities.

A class action…

It's been a while since I posted anything here but the new SEO contest Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World that was the idea of Eric Bramlett in Austin, TX. and with Morgan Carey generous enough to offer a free website with life time hosting I decided it was time to get back here and write an article. Hopefully this will get me in the habit of writing more.

This contest started out as a fun little experiment in SEO for an uncommon keyword phrase that would not affect anyone negatively and would just be a learning experience. It has taken on a more serious tone with Morgan's offering of the website, Eric offering 10 free articles and Tony Sena of Wannanetwork is offering 1 year of advertising.

Since official entries must use do-follow the Current the…