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Be Alert to Synthetic Identity Fraud

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AI fabricates whole fake people to commit fraud.

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AI helps create entirely synthetic identities — fake names, faces, and histories — used to open accounts and commit fraud. Strong identity verification and monitoring your own credit guard against being impersonated or implicated.

“Some of the people committing fraud never existed.”

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