Synthetic Identity’s New Shell Game – Fake Tradelines

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 […]

Using CPN’s Are Landing People in Jail

A recent expose on CPN use by NBC’s Scott Friedman shows how the seedy element of the credit repair business is landing some consumers of their services in jail. The investigation focuses on one consumer – Swatisha Keith. All that she wanted was a better life with better credit to help buy things she needed […]