Employment and income fraud risk has been steadily rising since 2009. Analysts at Interthinx attribute the growing risk to the misrepresentation of borrower data to meet the tighter debt-to-income ratios that lenders now demand. The Mortgage Fraud Risk Report shows that employment and income fraud risk in the third quarter was up 8.8 percent from the same period last year, and up 50.0 percent from the third quarter of 2009. One thing that doesn’t change is the states that have the highest exposure to this fraud; Nevada, the riskiest state, has an index value of 255, and Arizona comes in a close second with an index of 243. These...