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When it comes to repairing your credit, any offer that requires an upfront payment before delivering services is a red flag and against the law. Scammers know people are desperate to improve their ...

Auto lenders are increasingly running up against unscrupulous borrowers and others who use goosed up credit scores, as well as fake identities, to take out car loans that many have absolutely no ...

A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia finds that certain consumers who experience severe identity theft subsequently experience significant and persistent improvements in ...

Approximately 9% of U.S. households fall victim to identity theft each year, and those numbers are on the rise. Anyone whose personally identifiable information (PII) has been compromised in a data ...

Washington, D.C., is their butcher. Slicing up the U.S. and selling it by the pound. I describe D.C. law-writing thus: DC’s Cronies place their hands on pieces of paper. And DC traces them with law ...

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