The Federal Trade Commission announced in September that 27.3 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft in the past five years. About half of those thefts took place last year. According to the FTC report, the thefts resulted from several outlets that include credit cards, ATM machines and the Internet. The prominence of the Internet is often blamed for the increase in the number of identity thefts. But that view of the Internet as a wasteland filled with digital highway robbers is greatly exaggerated.
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Identity Theft Countermeasures
Posted by: Jack M. Germain October 7, 2003 04:13 AMThe Federal Trade Commission announced in September that 27.3 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft in the past five years. About half of those thefts took place last year. According to the FTC report, the thefts resulted from several outlets that include credit cards, ATM machines and the Internet. The prominence of the Internet is often blamed for the increase in the number of identity thefts. But that view of the Internet as a wasteland filled with digital highway robbers is greatly exaggerated.