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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Sun Sep 9, 2012, 02:45 PM Sep 2012

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Wells Fargo Mistakenly Cleans Out Retired Couple's Home Twice

http://news.yahoo.com/wells-fargo-mistakenly-cleans-retired-couples-home-twice-192508841--abc-news-topstories.html

Alvin and Pat Tjosaas, a retired couple in Woodland Hills, Calif., had the bad luck of having their home mistaken for a neighboring foreclosed home and being cleared by contractors hired by Wells Fargo -- not once but twice.

(Plenty at the link. Plenty.)

Via Occupy Fights Foreclosures.

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Wells Fargo Mistakenly Cleans Out Retired Couple's Home Twice (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Sep 2012 OP

hmmmmmph. twice is not an accident. nt xchrom Sep 2012 #1

Sometime Mapquest & GoogleMaps are messed up. nt morningglory Sep 2012 #7

This is the second WF story like this this week. CrispyQ Sep 2012 #2

clean me out once, shame on — shame on you;... clean me out — you can't get cleaned out again! unblock Sep 2012 #3

Trial run for new thievery scheme? dixiegrrrrl Sep 2012 #4

the "person" should be charge with burglary noiretextatique Sep 2012 #5

yep Tigress DEM Sep 2012 #8

"Mistakenly"??? Is that like "I misspoke"? Viva_Daddy Sep 2012 #6

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

1. hmmmmmph. twice is not an accident. nt

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 02:52 PM

Sep 2012

morningglory

(2,336 posts)

7. Sometime Mapquest & GoogleMaps are messed up. nt

Reply to xchrom (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 04:06 PM

Sep 2012

CrispyQ

(38,245 posts)

2. This is the second WF story like this this week.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:08 PM

Sep 2012

Don't have a link to the other, but they took the family's entire belongings & basically said, "Sorry."

unblock

(54,151 posts)

3. clean me out once, shame on — shame on you;... clean me out — you can't get cleaned out again!

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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:09 PM

Sep 2012

dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)

4. Trial run for new thievery scheme?

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:18 PM

Sep 2012

Have read quite a few stories of this happening "by accident".
And of folks who are trying to re-negotiate their mortgage being cleaned out also.

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)

5. the "person" should be charge with burglary

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:32 PM

Sep 2012

since corporations are people...

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)

8. yep

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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 04:34 PM

Sep 2012

Viva_Daddy

(785 posts)

6. "Mistakenly"??? Is that like "I misspoke"?

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Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:40 PM

Sep 2012

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