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- FTC identifies top fraud complaints.(WASHINGTON)(Brief article)
- The Federal Trade Commission FTC released its list of top consumer fraud complaints. In 2007, of the 813,899 total complaints received, 32% were related to identity theft. Credit card fraud was the most common form of identity theft (23%), followed The Federal Trade Commission FTC released...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
- On-Line Fraud Fight: How It Has Evolved
- The Federal Trade Commission says 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, including 9.9 million people in the last year alone, costing companies $48 billion and consumers $5 billion. Gartner Inc. warns that 18 pe The Federal Trade Commission says 27.3 million Americans...
- Research articles 2003-10-03
- Identity Theft: ITAC's Next Move: Beyond The Banks?
- She didn't get balloons and a light show, but "Mrs. W" still earned a prize as a landmark patron of the Identity Theft Assistance Center. She won her name back. Two housecleaners had pilfered her wallet and in less than two months had opened up a fraudule She didn't get...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
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- Protecting your employees from identity theft. (Issues@Work).
- Identity theft has been making the news recently, and is affecting consumers in alarming numbers. According to a report by the Federal Trade Commission FTC, identity theft accounted for 43 percent of all fraud complaints lodged in the FTC's Consume Identity theft has been making the...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Identity theft foiled again. (On First Reading).(Brief Article)
- Stealing someone's credit card number is the easiest way to commit identity fraud. Thieves can find receipts left on tables in restaurants or in shopping bags, thrown away in a trash can or dumpster, or left behind at the gas pump. Identity theft affects...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Federal Trade Commission. (Did You Know That?).(identity theft tops consumer complaint list)(Brief Article)
- For the third year in a row, identity theft has topped the list of consumer complaint categories recorded by the Federal Trade Commission. Forty-three percent of complaints registered in the FTC's Consumer Sentinel database related to identity theft in 2002. Both the number of fraud complaints...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- ACFE Joins Forces With FTC To Tackle Identity Theft
- AUSTIN, Texas -- The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners ACFE, the world's leading provider of anti-fraud training and education, joins forces with Betsy Broder, Assistant Director at the Federal Trade Commission FTC and Carol DiBattiste, Chief Credentialing, Compliance and Privacy Officer at ChoicePoint to discuss effective solutions to help fight...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Identity theft: fighting fraud, assisting victims
- When identity theft became a federal crime, the FTC launched an identity theft program to provide victim assistance, coordinate education and outreach efforts, and facilitate the referral of complaint data nationwide to law enforcement. The program also provides outreach to industry to help protect consumers against ID theft. This article...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- San Antonio Is Third in Texas for Number in Identity-Theft Reports.
- By L.A. Lorek, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23--For the fourth consecutive year, identity theft tops the list of complaints to the Federal Trade Commission. "Every instance of identity theft is a crime that has at least ...
- Research articles 2004-01-23
- Identity theft: how you can protect yourself
- Identity theft occurs when your personal information is stolen and used to commit fraud or other crimes without your knowledge. This costs you time, money, credit and your good name. The Federal Trade Commission FTC, the nation's consumer protection agency, wants you to know how to protect yourself. You can...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Identity theft says the Federal Trade Commission is the number-one consumer fraud complaint
- IDENTITY THEFT says the Federal Trade Commission is the number-one consumer fraud complaint, accounting for a staggering 42 percent of the 204,000 complaints listed by the FTC's Consumer Sentinel database in 2001. Next were Internet auctions, Internet services and computer complaints, shop-at-home and catalog offers, and advance-fee loans and credit...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- Healthcare Roundup: Advantage Commissions Targeted, Identity Rules Delayed, Death by Credit Crunch and More
- Humana, UnitedHealth call for caps on Medicare Advantage commissions -- Insurance agents who enroll seniors in Medicare Advantage plans --which are subsidized by the government but offered by private health-insurance plans -- are getting sizeable commissions from those insurers. Medicare will look into the commissions and whether they prompt overzealous...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Online ID theft is top of the pops.
- Feb 12, 2002 The Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- More than 86,000 individuals in the US had their identities stolen in 2001. Figures released by the Federal Trade Commission FTC ranked identity theft number one on its Consumer Sentinel fraud database list. Consumer Sentinel...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- ID Theft Tops FTC Complaints Again
- Identity theft has topped the Federal Trade Commission's FTC list of consumer complaints for the fourth year in a row.Reports of Internet-related fraud accounted for 55 percent of the consumer fraud complaints filed in 2003, up from 45 percent in 2002. According to FTC data, Internet fraud cost American consumers...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Report Say U.S. Consumers' Price Tag for Identify Theft Swelled to $5 Billion.
- By Andy Vuong, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 4--Identity theft and credit-card fraud cost an estimated 10 million Americans about $5 billion last year, according to a Federal Trade Commission survey released Wednesday. "Identity theft is a...
- Research articles 2003-09-04
- Healthcare Roundup: Wal-Mart Offers Employee PHRs, Health Plan Collapses, and More
- Wal-Mart offers employees personal-health records -- The retail giant said it would offer its employees electronic PHRs based on technology from WebMD and Dossia, an employer coalition. The company will pre-fill those records with prescription-drug and medical-treatment information from pharmacies and health-insurance companies. Of course, there's a catch: The plan...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Consumer Fraud Goes High-Tech in Connecticut.
- By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 23--Consumer fraud in Connecticut was a high-tech affair in 2003, as government officials fielded growing numbers of complaints about identity theft and Internet fraud. State consumers...
- Research articles 2004-01-23
- Help for ChoicePoint ID Theft Victims
- In January, the Federal Trade Commission levied a $15 million penalty against data broker ChoicePoint because the company allowed criminals posing as customers to access the personal data of 163,000 consumers. Of that sum, $5 million is being used to create a fund for victims of fraud or identity theft...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- FTC Issues Document Destruction Rule
- The US Federal Trade Commission FTC has issued a final Rule requiring businesses to dispose of sensitive consumer data properly. The Rule is one of several new requirements intended to combat consumer fraud and identity theft and protect privacy required by the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Internet Fraud On Rise, FTC Says
- Online scams accounted for an increasing number of consumer complaints this past year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The agency listed identity theft--the practice of maxing out credit cards and running up bills in someone else's name--as the top consumer complaint, accounting for 43 percent of the 380,000...
- Research articles 2003-01-24
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