{"id":336411,"date":"2026-09-02T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:18:11","slug":"ag-james-warning-nyers-of-potential-student-loan-forgiveness-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336411\/","title":{"rendered":"AG James warning NYers of potential student loan forgiveness scams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 10: People and students mill about on the campus of Hunter College of The City University of New York, April 10, 2017 in New York City. Following a state budget approval on Sunday, New York will be the first state to make public <\/p>\n

NEW YORK – Attorney General Letitia James is warning New Yorkers that scammers are targeting college students seeking loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 16: Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at her NYC office on October 16, 2025 in New York City. Gov. Kathy Hochul was joined by James and Janno Lieber, Chair & CEO at New York Metropoli <\/p>\n

Possible student loan scams <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

James issued a consumer alert warning<\/a> earlier today, Sept. 2, regarding scammers exploiting changes to student loan payment programs.<\/p>\n

“Student loans are already a burden, and the federal administration’s changes to loan repayment programs are making it even harder for borrowers to manage their finances,” the attorney general said in her press release.<\/p>\n

Bad actors are reportedly taking advantage of the confusion to manipulate and deceive student loan borrowers.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

To combat any potential fraudsters, James recommends that borrowers cite vetted websites, such as:<\/p>\n

The Source: This article includes information from Attorney General Letitia James’ earlier press release.<\/p>\n

New York<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 10: People and students mill about on the campus of Hunter College…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,12,56,63,122,124,123,618],"class_list":["post-336411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}