A larger percentage of loans originated over the past three years show evidence of collusion fraud among parties to the transaction, according to LexisNexis. Prior to 2009, collusion fraud – defined as incidents of verified, non-arm’s length transactions – was reported on less than 5.0 percent of loans, the company said. For loans originated in 2009, that rate jumped to 7.0 percent and then to 9.7 percent in 2010. The rate edged down to 6.8 percent for 2011 originations, but experts think the reported numbers understate the prevalence of such fraud.“Because these complex relationships ...