Category: Pension Advance Scam
Upstate Law Group’s Participation in Pension Assignment Operation Exposed by Newspaper
The Charleston (South Carolina) Review and Courier has posted an investigative piece describing the relationship of a South Carolina Law Firm, the Upstate Law Group, in a pension assignment operation. The article is available online here. The names of the companies selling the pension assignments changed over the years, but the participation of Upstate Law […]
LFO – LIfetime Funding Options and New Wrinkle on Pension Assignment Scam
I’ve written before in this blog about the law closing in on the big players in the pension benefit assignment scams. A recent caller explained experience which appears to be a new wrinkle on the scam. In their case, LFO, Lifetime Funding Options ceased taking money directly out of the pension, and had the consumer […]
Did You Assign Your Pension to Future Income Payments?
For about 4 years I have been working for consumers, protecting them from collectors relating to pension advance scams. I just ran across an article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that said Future Income Payments laid off 100 employees when it closed an office near Detroit, Michigan last year. That was the first information that […]
