Synthetic Identity Fraud

Fraud where criminals combine real and fake information to create new identities that don't correspond to any real person, used to open accounts and build credit.

Category: fraud prevention. Part of the Identity Technologist Glossary — more than 200 practitioner-grade definitions covering identity verification, KYC/AML, biometrics, fraud prevention, and compliance. See all terms at https://identitytechnologist.com/glossary.