Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing
a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them.
Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of
stealing a real identity, the attacker manufactures a new one,
frankensteining together several real data points with fabricated
ones to create a person who doesn't exist. Since no real victim
monitors misuse, a
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