Using anonymized customer data to determine where people were most likely to request a fraud alert be placed on their cards, it is not so surprising that Las Vegas was the highest at 13.6%. New York and Miami were not far behind at 12.9%.
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LendingTree ranks metros area fraud alerts
With millions of Americans affected by data breaches every year, such as recent revelations at Uber and Equifax, LendingTree decided to look at anonymized data from a sample of the over 7 million My LendingTree users to see where people are most likely to have asked a credit bureau to place a fraud alert on their credit report. My LendingTree, available online and at app stores, offers free credit monitoring that includes alerts within 30 minutes of activity on your credit report.
