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Old Sep 15, 2018, 1:46 pm
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Calchas
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Originally Posted by BAGoldBoy
My wife has managed large fraud teams for 20+ years and is an industry expert on fraud and identity theft and has been affiliated with CIFAS for 20+ years she should be taken seriously. Any new credit or bank application made in your name will be halted by CIFAS and you will be contacted. All you need to confirm is that the application was genuine - what's the issue?
The problem is not with the banks, but a number of smaller firms (including a prominent mobile phone company) simply deny applications to anyone with a CIFAS marker. They aren’t supposed to, but apparently it works out cheaper than reviewing the application by hand.
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