Unauthorized mortgage refinance payoff causes delinquency and credit damage
A mortgage servicer processed a payoff and initiated a fund transfer without borrower authorization after a refinance application was cancelled, causing returned payments, wrongful delinquency reporting, and credit damage that took months to correct.
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