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Class Action Suit filed against Lending TREE

On Friday June 13th 2008 a Class Action Suit was filed against Lending Tree,

Under 3 names and on behalf of all who had their Identity info stolen.

The Suit also was filed against the California Mortage Co's who bought the info from Lending Tree employees,or former employees.

I would suggest contacting the firm who filed and tell them your stories.

FINKELSTEIN THOMPSON LLP

1050 30th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20007

Telephone: (202) 337-8000

Christopher of NV @ Jul 07, 2008 11:56:03 AM

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i also have been a victim of idenity theft and what a job i am correcting my credit ans still going threw this. notified them of my problem and straighten this out with the credit bureau well they just about have destoyed me. i am still fighting this and find that i am getting nowhere and no one seems to care. i want a class actiong suit and if there is count me in. i am 61 yrs old i don;t need this. at my age i have to prove to the credit bureau who i am. there are people out there using my ss no. and getting me into more debt that i know what to do with . somone please help me

linda silveira of MA @ Jun 30, 2008 17:37:36 PM

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i also have been a victim of idenity theft and what a job i am correcting my credit ans still going threw this. notified them of my problem and straighten this out with the credit bureau well they just about have destoyed me. i am still fighting this and find that i am getting nowhere and no one seems to care. i want a class actiong suit and if there is count me in.

linda silveira of MA @ Jun 30, 2008 17:33:44 PM

Indian Call Center

I called Lending Tree to find out if my personal information, that I had given to them in my application, had been stolen.

The help center person I spoke with was an Indian female (calling herself Sarah) who stated that, my information couldn't have been stolen because she could still see it on the computer.

Mon Kie of SC @ Jun 25, 2008 19:28:09 PM

Possible class action investigation

Finkelstein-Thompson is investigating the possibility of a class action against Lending Tree and others with regards to this identity theft situation. Contact them for more information.

George of CO @ May 20, 2008 20:54:42 PM

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I called lending Tree and got hung up on several times and then got the run around. Have peoples personal information been affected? Also, what is it that we can do to rectify this situation? They told me to check free credit report yet I did that around 10 months ago and I can not get a free one again. How is it that Lending tree can get away with this?

Tracy of TX @ May 18, 2008 22:08:07 PM

Lending Tree Troubles

Below is a letter I sent to my Senator.

To put it bluntly, Lending tree must be stopped.

The only edit in this letter is the removel of our last names.

To Senator Ensign,

Please be advised that Mortgage lending Co LENDING TREE due to their own negligence has had maybe 100 of thousands of Nevadians credit files stolen. It seems their own employees sold my wife's and god knows how many people credit files to California Mortgage Co, and whoever else would give them a buck for it.

When I called them up after recieving a letter from Lending Tree that my beautiful wife had her credit file stolen, which includes name,dob,ss#,job salary and history address etc.

They refused to give me any info and refused to delete my wifes info citing federal regulations they could not produce. They also refused to give me either attorney's name or phone # and said to me this is not our problem let it go.

They did say however that to be safe I should get a credit report and hire a credit monitoring service at my own expense for the next 2 years.I should tell you they hung up on me twice, WELL NIKITA, hung up on me twice.Saying to me this is not LENDING TREE'S CONCERN.

I don't need to tell you the ramafications of ones COMPLETE IDENTITY being stolen.

The sad part is we didn't even use Lending Tree cause of their outrageous rates.We bought a small place outright.

Also my mom called them up yesterday(yes mother's day) and the rep she spoke to claimed she never heard of any files being sold or the facT that under fraud there is a class action suit against LENDING TREE.

Please Senator realize just how big this is and do something. In the state of Maryland alone 56 thousand people are affected. How many in Nevada are affected???????

I am 42 and my wonderful wife is 40 and at our ages repairing this could takes us to our deaths.

One lady had 46 inquires in a 3 month peroid destoying her good credit.

I am or was recieving 3-5 phone calls a week from MORTGAGE LENDING company's until about 2 weeks ago, some still on my caller ID.

Please help and alert people before it's too late which by now maybe already.

Thankyou for your time,

Amy

Christopher

Christopher V of NV @ May 13, 2008 14:27:07 PM

LendingTree

The number of times they sell your personal information leads to privacy breaches as well. You are led to believe that when you apply with them that you are applying to a "bank". In fact, your application (name, address, social security number, phone, fax, email) is SOLD to mortgage brokers, lenders and loan originators all over the country.

The only qualification you need to purchase a lead from Lending Tree is the ability to PAY for it.

One lead is sold to MANY. I have had people tell me that I am the 10th caller from thier one inquiry.

When you apply with LT then you are exposing your personal information to a large number of people and you don't know who. I don't believe there is any amount of security they can institute to stop information sharing.

The public should be made aware of this PRIOR to applying with them.

Larry Rubinoff of FL @ Apr 25, 2008 12:47:14 PM

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Luke Mullins is an associate editor at U.S. News, covering banking, real estate, and white-collar crime. He came to the magazine from the American Banker, a financial services daily newspaper, after a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa and 18 months coaching baseball in the Dominican Republic. Mullins earned a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University in 2005 and now lives in Washington, D.C., where he grew up. He has written about white-collar criminals for the American magazine, and his work was included in 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006, a Random House anthology that appeared on the Boston Globe's bestseller list.

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