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by wwmiller3 630 days ago
Unfortunately, that isn’t enough to mitigate identity theft. Someone leveraging the recent National Public Data breach opened a checking and savings account using my identity (no credit checks are performed in doing so) then committed wire fraud using accounts.
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Banks use various other services such as Early Warning. Still, it's absurd the lengths we need to go to for any level of assurance against fraud.