This article reports that identity (ID) theft, for the seventh year in a row, remained the top complaint among consumers who filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2006. Last year, 36% of 674,354 complaints to the FTC were for ID theft. The report only ...
After taking steps to block the identity thief from further fraudulent activity, report the case of identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), who will provide an affidavit to help youfile a police report, assist law enforcement investigations, and help you recover lost funds by provi...
The Federal Trade Commission said a surge in reports of identity theft occurred amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are reports of scammers covering up QR codes on parking meters with their own malicious QR codes. Other "crafty" scammers send QR codes by text message or email and give you fake reasons to scan it, such as: Saying they couldn’t deliver your package and need you to scan the co...
How phone scammers tricked Americans out of tens of billions of dollars each year Scams that started on social media resulted in people reporting losing $1.2 billion. Additionally, there were more than 1.1 million reports ofidentity theftin 2022. ...
TheFTC describesCSN as “an investigative cyber tool and complaint database for law enforcement officials only.” It includes millions of reports about coronavirus scams, identity theft, Do-Not-Call Registry violations, telemarketing scams, loan and credit scams, and other consumer related complaints....
By the time ChoicePoint settled these charges with the FTC, it was determined that at least 800 cases of Identity Theft arose from the company’s data breach. A more recent example might be Twitter’s settlement of charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing...
“The upgraded site, which is mobile and tablet accessible, offers an array of easy-to-use tools, that enables identity theft victims to create the documents they need to alert police, the main credit bureaus and the IRS among others,” Ramirez said. “Identity theft victims can now go onl...
"While lucrative for the companies, these surveillance practices can endanger people's privacy, threaten their freedoms, and expose them to a host of harms, from identity theft to stalking," said FTC Chair Lina Khan. Data privacy, particularly for kids and teens, has bee...
The FTC managesIdentityTheft.gov, a resource to help consumers submit identity theft reports and recover from identity theft. The site offers consumers advice on how to protect against and identify instances of identity theft as well as the steps to take if their personal information is stolen to...