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Re:Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’ by beagle3 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:12AM (#15347414)
The party who gets a call from collectors or who is denied credit.

If I publish your nude pictures in a newspaper, you are similarly not a party to this transaction, but you are hurt by it. This is similar.

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Re:Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’ by zxcmx on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:17AM (#15347468)
I apologise but I think you have a poor understanding of the way this stuff works.

Everyone absolutely wants to extend you credit.

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Re:Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’ by _jal on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:45AM (#15357064)
No, you're missing the poster's point.

They're saying the problem is this:

You want to do business with company A. Company A asks company B for information about you. Company B lies to company A. Now company A won't do business with you, because company B lied about you.

Company B in this scenario is a company like Experian.

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