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Identity theft has been labeled by the Federal Trade Commission as one of the fastest growing crimes in the U.S., and everyday there are headlines in papers around the world about information and identities stolen.
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The Federal Trade Commission's list of consumer complaints was dominated by identity theft and fraud issues for the seventh year in a row in 2006.
Identity theft totaled nearly 250,000 of the recorded complaints and credit card fraud was the most recorded.
This came to a grand total of $1.1 billion dollars worth of complaints, with the average individual losing around $500, but it's a common theory that a lot more goes on unreported.
Identity theft and credit card fraud are fast becoming the crimes most Americans are concerned about.
The industry-funded Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) claims that a large percentage of identity theft victims even know the thief - in some instances it is a friend or family member.
However, the worst type of theft or monetary loss would be when fraudsters from overseas perpetrate the crime. When this is the case, it is extremely unlikely that stolen funds can be returned given the complexities of dealing with foreign countries, especially in the third world, and the nomadic nature of the identity thieves.
Also a concern is something called "synthetic identity theft" when thieves collate one person's name and another's Social Security number. If you are a victim of synthetic identity theft some of your private information will be used to create a pseudo individual, a ghost in the system that isn't quite you and isn't quite someone else.
Unfortunately these ghosts in the system tend to lead collectors to your door. Synthetic identity fraud is harder to detect as the victims know nothing of its occurrence until collectors are commencing their steps to collect.