Sentences with phrase «then identity fraud»

If identity theft is the act of stealing personal, private, or financial information, then identity fraud is the use of this stolen information.

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Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

If a dating site required a verification of identity for each member, then the system would work better as frauds (hopefully) would be denied access.

They then use this to commit identity fraud.

One data breach can expose your Social Security number to fraudsters who can then use it to commit identity fraud.

If there's a drastic change, then you know that you may have suspicious activity reporting — things like fraud or identity theft.

Last, call local law enforcement to file an identity theft report and, then request an extended fraud alert from the credit bureaus.

If you don't recognize the credit inquiry, then you know that you need to resolve identity fraud.

If you receive a letter notifying you that your information was involved in identity fraud, confirm that the letter is legitimate and then place a fraud alert on your credit report to make sure lenders know to take extra precautions to verify your identity when someone applies for credit in your name.

It's probably no wonder then, that Americans become victims of identity fraud every 2 seconds.

It beats that awkward conversation about how you can take cash but you probably shouldn't take a check because of all the fraud that's been going around, and then you lose the sale because you basically called your potential buyer an identity thief.