New Zealanders are not as honest as we'd like to think.
Veda credit data bureau's latest figures show identity fraud has risen by 50 per cent in the past two years.
Its alias register also shows some people with 30 aliases and hundreds with eight to ten different names.
Veda Managing Director, John Roberts, says identity crime is not just something that happens overseas and there are many people here who use multiple identities to commit fraud.
