Banks Can't Produce Records to Resolve Identity Theft Account Disputes
A consumer denied a loan due to an account allegedly opened in their name years earlier found the bank unable to produce any contract, card, or documentation proving the account was legitimately theirs, yet also unable to process an identity-theft claim without that same missing paperwork. Staff redirected them between departments without a working escalation path. This traps victims of suspected identity fraud in a documentation catch-22 that blocks both dispute and resolution.
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