Lincoln Hardship Relief Corporation

My name is Victoria ** and I am filing this complaint on behalf of and with the full knowledge of my mother, Kiyoko **. In the early spring of 2011, my mother was contacted by a representative from Lincoln Hardship Relief. They made many promises about the ways they could help her obtain the loan modification she had already applied for, through her mortgage holder, US Bank Home Mortgage. Since this process had already been in progress for a year, she was willing to get help to speed things up.

The end result was that Lincoln took $760.00 from my mother's bank account on 4/12/11 and never did a thing for her. There was no further contact after the signed "agreement" was faxed and the moneys were removed from her account. The "Forensic Audit Report" that was the technical promise in the agreement never materialized. After almost a year of nothing and no activity, I would like to see Lincoln Hardship Relief return my mother's money to her.

I was called. After many phone calls, I was convinced they could help me save my home. I stupidly let them debit my account for $1,495.

I called them many, many times and suddenly the phone was disconnected.

What their fee was is a mortgage payment. We are in bankruptcy, so when Sean ** told me to skip a mortgage payment, it would make us look like we really needed help. I was skeptical, but I did it.

Now, we are in trouble with Wells Fargo, your attorney and the bureaucracy trustee. I have MS and this stress has caused me to be hospitalized.

I was called by Allison on 3/9/2011, who introduced forensic auditing on my home, stating that her company could stop me from losing my home. Demanded that I give her $1500.00 for services they offer. I did not have it all so she decided she would take $375.00 to start and there after they will take $375.00 over a period of three months. Shortly after that, I was unable to contact them from the number provided, if and when I do get someone, they would be very rude with different stories asking for more money. Gave a lot of alibi. I really need my money back from them, could you please have them return my money in full. Presently their number have been saying disconnected. Thank you. The experience with them is very poor. They have fraudulently invaded my personal information.

I was contacted by Alex **, Senior Counselor and later spoke with Kris Pennington (Manager/Owner). He promised that he could help with my first and my second. They wanted to take the money out of my checking account via automatic deduction by giving them my account number and routing number. Afterwards, when I tried to fax over the final document the fax did not work nor would anyone answer my phone calls. I finally requested a refund via a FedEx letter. I kept calling and suddenly all the email boxes were full and could not take messages. No one would pick up the phone. No receptionist answered since it had been Maribel **

The phones went down in early June, except the main number ** telling us to contact **. Then, that email went down as non-deliverable. Now, the website has gone down. I guess, they figured there is a ** born everyday and we can take their money. Banks say that they do not pay for mortgage, help or modification, but they seem unwilling to modify our loans and thus we become desperate to do something about it and often we think of legal or professional people to assist us in these matters. These should be brought to justice and if they cannot repay my $760.00 (paid back on May 13, 2011) they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

$1,250.00(one thousand two hundred fifty, then 30 days later the $1,250.00 to complete $2,500.00 Total . at this point I try to contact him several times.. and no respond. because I lost My House.. please help me at least to get my money back, thanks a lot...Sincerely.. God Bless.

Absolute rip-off artists! They stole $760 fee to audit our current mortgage loan with promises to take the lender to court if they did not modify loan with violations in it.

They should be hunted down and brought to justice!!!

I signed a Loan modification contract with Lincoln Hardship Relief in February, 2011 to provide assistance and legal support for a loan modification with Beneficial Financial for our 1st and 2nd Mortgage. The service has not been provided which has resulted in the 2nd mortgage being sold to a law firm and no response has been given from Benefical Financial HFBS to confirm the loan modification of the 1st mortage.

06/27/11: I am very disappointed with the fact that regardless of how many messages I leave, they still fail to return phone calls. They claim that you have a money-back guarantee and that the process will take 90 days. It has been more than 90 days with no results. I did business with them due to that fact that I felt I was getting no where with my mortgage company. From what I can see, they are no better than the predatory lenders out there who have taken advantage of so many people. No communication from Lincoln Hardship Relief makes them look as unethical as the banks they are supposedly dealing with. If anyone gets any results, or their money refunded, please let me know how.

I believe the Lincoln Hardship Relief company misrepresented themselves as my current mortgage company to get my business. They left a message on my phone indicating that they were calling from Nation Star Mortgage regarding my recent loan modification. And they told me that I was selected for review. They left a return number to call. When I called back, the representative still talked as if she was working for the company. At one point, I stated that I added all the info to the packet. She noted to make sure they get the changes. Then, she said I would be receiving a call immediately from the next rep. As he was talking, I then realized this was not my mortgage company. I later asked, "Is this Nationstar?" He said no and that Nationstar may have been practicing illegal loan modifications and they were going to review and assist me modify my current loan for a fee of $990.00. I did not send any money. I just thought I should report this.