cnu The bank said I owed $560,000 on a mortgage I never signed. Turns out, my sister used my name to buy her dream house. “Parents also support her.” At dinner, I slid the police report across the table.

and a lender file that had somehow passed through far too many hands without anyone verifying that the woman whose name was on the paperwork had ever stood inside the closing room.

The bank fraud department escalated my claim. My credit bureaus froze my reports and marked the mortgage as disputed. I filed identity theft affidavits. I filed an FTC report.continue reading …