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Sarah leaned forward. “When was the last time you checked your credit report?”

Elias shrugged. “I thought you had to pay for those. I didn't want to spend forty bucks to see a bunch of numbers I wouldn't understand.” annual-free-credit-report

Over the next three months, the annual free credit report became Elias’s roadmap to recovery. He used the details in the report to file disputes with the credit bureaus and a report with the FTC. He watched, page by page, as the fraudulent accounts were investigated and eventually purged. Sarah leaned forward

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“I’m sorry, Elias,” his mortgage broker, Sarah, said with a sympathetic wince. “Your application was flagged. There’s a series of late payments on a high-interest retail card in your name. Your score is in the basement.”

Elias blinked. “I don’t own any retail cards. I use one debit card for everything.”