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		loceng on Aug 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer dat... Any ideas on what may be a better/more appropriate term than identity theft?

acdha on Aug 16, 2021 [–]

I second “bank fraud”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28193639

If a bank extends credit to someone without doing their due diligence, they’ve definitely been defrauded but that’s between them and the crook, not the person the crook was claiming to be.

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