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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A credit fraud alert is a notice sent to a credit reporting bureau that a consumer’s ...

Your personal information is valuable. If criminals get their hands on it, they can — among other things — open credit cards while pretending to be you. Then it’s up to you to shut down fraudulent ...

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