The risk of fraud in property valuation, occupancy and identity has seen its highs and lows in 2011 but the rising trend of employment and income fraud in mortgage loan applications over the last two years is cause for concern, according to Interthinx’s 2011 Mortgage Fraud Risk Report. According to the annual report, the employment/income fraud risk index rose 14 percent in 2011 and has been on an upward trend for more than two years. Over that period, the index has increased more than 45 percent, it said. The report said the increase may have been the result of the larger decline in the income of working...