beSpacific: FTC Releases Annual Report of Consumer Complaints on ID Theft and Fraud

January 23, 2004

FTC Releases Annual Report of Consumer Complaints on ID Theft and Fraud

From the FTC's Identity Theft Data Clearing House, a new report, National and State Trends in Fraud & Identity Theft, January - December 2003.

From the January 22 press release: "For the fourth year in a row, identity theft topped the list, accounting for 42 percent of the complaints lodged in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel database. The FTC received more than half a million complaints in 2003, up from 404,000 in 2002, and Internet-related complaints accounted for 55 percent of all fraud reports, up from 45 percent in 2002."

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