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In Battling Identity Fraud, Finding Digital DNA And The`(Synthetic ID) Devil Behind The Details

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Barnhardt related that with the advent of chip cards in the United States, fraudsters have been looking for new avenues through which to continue their criminal enterprises. Yet a GIACT identity test revealed no fewer than 590 applications where Social Security numbers were used to open accounts for people who were deceased.

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Synthetic Identities, Tailor-Made For Fraud

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The fact remains that the very data that is readily available across all conduits of transactions – from phone numbers to Social Security numbers – are there for the taking, across all manner of firms, and can be used as building blocks to create sophisticated ways to defraud the innocent.