Searching For The True Number Of Identity Theft Victims In The Us May Include Your Children
Posted on February 1, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
This year research companies Javelin and Gartner did not agree with the FTC’s reported number of identity theft victims in the US during 2006. Gartner topped out at 15 million and Javelin claimed identity theft was diminishing. The reports made by consumer to the FTC were in between.
No matter what the illusive real number is, a few things come to mind these three expert groups might agree on in regard to factually measuring the victims and affects of the identity theft crisis:
The first is what is called a synthetic identity, where parts of your information such as your social security number is mixed with another persons name at an unrelated address.
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