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Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backb...
A counter-measure to such attacks would be a "block" against the usual "hard pull" from Equifax or other credit raters when opening a bank account.
siruncledrew
on Feb 1, 2019
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Usually a hard pull isn't done for a bank account (it is for loans though). A soft pull is done instead, which has essentially no credit impact.
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