Has someone taken a loan in your name?
The good news is that identity theft fell overall last year. The bad news is that there were huge spikes in certain kinds of ID fraud - and one of the largest growth areas was around loan fraud. It's a particularly frightening prospect, because often you will have no idea that you are a victim of this kind of crime until weeks or even months after an attack. By that time you could already find yourself owing thousands of pounds.
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