Monday, April 25, 2011

Local 'robo-signer' in Florida alleges her signatures were forged

West Palm Beach resident Liz Mills learned she was a robo-signer when a friend suggested she search her own name online.


On foreclosure blogs and in at least one newspaper article, the 51-year-old process server was singled out for the numerous and varying styles of her signatures on summons paperwork used to prove her efforts in locating home¬owners in foreclosure.

Now Mills is coming forward in affidavits filed in three foreclosure cases, saying she didn't sign the paperwork and never signed in front of a notary despite notary stamps affixed to the documents.

In one case, Mills allegedly signed a return of non-service, meaning the homeowner could not be found, for a foreclosure in Lehigh Acres near Florida's west coast - a town where Mills said she has never been.

"I'm not really sure what's going on with all of this or what could happen, but it's upsetting because if you read the articles it's like they are trying to make the individual process servers the fall guy," said Mills, who became a process server 12 years ago. "I think they just wanted to move the paperwork along faster."

Service of process is sometimes the first notice a homeowner has that the bank has filed for foreclosure .

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