Tag Archives: credit card fraud

FTC Receives over 500,000 Credit Bureau Fraud Claims

Most of are aware of what the three Credit bureaus are. These are companies that use data provided by credit furnisher to assess your ability to pay back debt. They then sell this data to a lending agency with a score that correlates to how they interpret the consumers ability to pay back a loan. […]

Victims of Identity Theft Are Robbed of $16 billion in 2016

Identity Theft, Credit Repair $16 billion in 2016

If you haven’t heard the term “identity theft” before you may have been living under a rock. A recent Identity Fraud Study was released this year by Javelin Strategy & Research; this study revealed that 15.4 million Americans were victims of identity theft. These crooks were successfully able to rob two million more victims and […]