I received an unsolicited text message from 310-562-9513 stating "If you have $10,000 or more in credit card debt, STOP PAYING SO MUCH INTEREST! Our program can lower your high payments immediately. Text back “YES” for info."
My number is on the do not call list, and this text message violates Federal Law. I texted "yes" to find out who is behind this number. I then received a text response from 949-610-5142, asking if they could call. I again said yes.
After texting “yes,” I received a call from 714-683-0500. Googling it revealed this better business bureau report:
US Mitigation Services
Address: 1648 South Clementine Street
Anaheim , CA 92802
Tel: (714) 683-0500
Fax: (714) 683-0550
Web Site: http://www.TheSmartmtg.com
Contact: Michael Kensis - CEO/President (Note: his name is spelled Kinses)
Business Start Date: 1/1/2004
Company ID: 100083426
Nature of Business:
This company's business is providing loan modification and foreclosure services.
Found this by Googling “K. Michael Kinses”:
K. Michael Kinses, CEO/Pres. The U.S. Mitigation Service, LLC Office 714-683-0500 Fax 714-683-0550
[email protected]
I checked who thesmartmtg.com is registered to and found the following:
Registrant Contact:
The Mortgage Broker Inc
Michael Kinses (
[email protected])
+1.714-772-5626
Fax: +1.714-772-5627
1648 S Clementine St
Anaheim, CA 92802
Searching the whois registry for themtgbroker.com reveals the following:
Administrative Contact:
The Mortgage Broker Inc
Michael Kinses (
[email protected])
+1.7147725626
Fax:
1648 S Clementine St
Anaheim, CA 92802
USA
Thus the guy behind these messages is apparently Kenneth Michael Kinses. He's a licensed real estate agent. His website offers loan modifications. Funny thing is, if you google his entire name in quotes, you'll see that a foreclosure notice was filed in late 09 on the house at 2448 W. Grivey in Anaheim. Not exactly the person I'd hire to handle my modification.