WASHINGTON , April 5 / PRNewswire-USNewswire / -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury , the U.S. Department of Justice , the Department of Housing and Urban Development , the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General of Illinois will announce a new effort to align responses from federal law enforcement agencies , state investigators and prosecutors , civil enforcement authorities and the private sector to protect homeowners seeking assistance under the Administration 's Making Home Affordable program from criminal actors looking to perpetrate predatory schemes at a press conference on MONDAY , APRIL 6 , 2009 at 11 A.M. ET at the Department of the Treasury. mortgage loan modification fraud and foreclosure rescue scams .