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December auto applications linked to new fraud wave

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By:
Jackie Charniga
January 08, 2020 04:45 PM

More than $5.5 million in auto loan applications has been linked to a new fraud wave, mostly in Southern California, with borrowers using synthetic identities by manipulating Social Security numbers, according to fraud detection specialist PointPredictive.

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