GUEST EDITORIAL
There’s a new game in town for synthetic fraudsters and unscrupulous credit repair companies – fake tradelines. And they might be using shell companies to perpetrate the devilish new scheme.
Those fake tradelines are being used to artificially inflate the credit scores of people that are using them so they can bypass lenders credit and fraud checks.
And it could be bigger than anyone realizes.
Synthetic Identity’s New Shell Game – Fake Tradelines
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