Robo-signed mortgage docs date back to late 1990s - Yahoo! Finance

Robo-signed mortgage docs date back to late 1990s - Yahoo! Finance
Companies that process mortgages said they were so overwhelmed with paperwork that they cut corners.But now, as county officials review years' worth of mortgage paperwork, in some cases combing through one page at a time, they are finding suspect signatures -- either signed with the same name by dozens of different people, improperly notarized or signed without a review of the facts in the paperwork -- on all sorts of mortgage documents, dating as far back as 1998, The Associated Press has found."Because of these bad titles, property owners can't prove they own the properties they think they bought, and banks can't prove they had the right to sell them," says Jeff Thigpen, the registrar of deeds in Guilford County, N.C.In Guilford County, where Greensboro is located, a sample of 6,100 mortgage documents filed since 2006 turned up 74 percent with questionable signatures.
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Isn't this special? Turns out perjury and falsification of evidence were standard operating procedure long before the subprime explosion.