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What You Need to Know About Credit Freezes When Buying a Home
This is a great blog post regarding credit freezes and how they are used and released during the mortgage process. After some of the credit breaches and identity theft issues in the past few years, I can understand why many people are taking extra precautions with their credit. Shared from Gene Mundt. 
    What You Need to Know About Credit Freezes When Buying a Home     Currently, I'm working with clients that had chosen ... prior to their mortgage application ... to place a Credit Freeze on their credit file and credit accounts ...
They had decided to take that action after the discovery of 2017's major Equifax Credit Breach.  In that breach, hackers gained access to consumer's Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and birth dates.  
In a number of cases, these hackers also stole driver's license numbers, as well.  And in a much smaller number (but still sizeable), other varying identity info was also stolen during that breach.  
Pretty scary stuff when you consider the huge number of people that conduct personal banking and business online via their computer or cell phone.  Their decision (and many others) to place a Freeze at that time is pretty understandable.
But what security protections are actually found by consumers like my clients when they place a ... more

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