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A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia finds that certain consumers who experience severe identity theft subsequently experience significant and persistent improvements in ...

A credit card opened in your name can hurt your score fast. Here's how it happens and what actually protects you.

Modern times combined with easy access to financial data has made credit score fraud more likely to occur than at any previous point in history. Theft of personal information by unauthorized parties ...

Sometimes, the fraud involves manipulating a credit file to make the borrower appear less of a risk. It's a term called 'credit washing.' Fraud losses in auto loans were 21 times higher than those ...