CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield February 27, 2014 17:55:00
Loans, giving out personal information much more often and also more savvy and more likely to report fraud. now, the ftc received over 2 million total complaints, much more than five years ago, much more than ten years ago. the higher numbers in part due to better reporting. there are a couple of ways you can protect yourself besides the usual credit monitoring, you could freeze your credit. that essentially locks your credit report so that creditors cannot access it. no new lines of credit can be established unless you thaw it. and that usually takes about two hours or less to thaw your credi...