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The New ID Theft: Millions of Credit Applicants Who Don’t Exist

Synthetic-identity fraud is one of the fastest growing forms of identity theft—and the hardest to spot and combat

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Keith Speers of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service tracked down a scammer who employed 300 phantom accomplices. Ryan Gibson for The Wall Street Journal

By Peter Rudegeair and AnnaMaria Andriotis
Updated March 6, 2018 12:10 p.m. ET

From a townhouse near a megachurch in Atlanta, Kelvin Lyles recruited about 300 accomplices to embark on a crime spree. His group scammed ATMs, internet retailers and credit-card companies, grabbing around $350,000, until late 2015, when federal agents closed in.

Mr. Lyles was the only one convicted. None of his accomplices existed. In a...

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