Not to diminish the “risk” American’s face from criminals with guns, I’d like to present another “risk” American’s are facing. As Daniel Wood states the US Crime rate is at a decade’s low, the FTC just reported: For Release: 02/28/2012
FTC Releases Top Complaint Categories for 2011
Identity Theft Once Again Tops the List
The Federal Trade Commission today released its list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2011. For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints topped the list.
Identity Theft Reported By Households, 2005-2010 –Lynn Langton
November 30, 2011 NCJ 236245
Presents data on the nature of and trends in identity theft victimization among U.S. households from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The NCVS defines identity theft as the misuse or attempted misuse of an existing credit card or another existing account or the misuse of personal information to open a new account or for other fraudulent purposes. Findings are based on experiences of all household members age 12 or older as reported by the head of household. The data brief examines changes in the percentage of households experiencing identity theft from 2005 to 2010. It describes differences in the types of identity theft experienced by households in 2010 compared to 2005, as well as changes in the demographic characteristics of victimized households. The brief also presents estimates on the monetary losses attributed to household victims of identity theft.
Highlights:
- In 2010, 7.0% of households in the United States, or about 8.6 million households, had at least one member age 12 or older who experienced one or more types of identity theft victimization.
- Among households in which at least one member experienced one or more types of identity theft, 64.1% experienced the misuse or attempted misuse of an existing credit card account in 2010.
- From 2005 to 2010, the percentage of all households with one or more type of identity theft that suffered no direct financial loss increased from 18.5% to 23.7%.
WHAT TO DO?
Protect yourself!
Criminals are coming at us on (2) fronts – Overt and Covert. It’s your decision on how best to mitigate the Overt … self defense, awareness, alarms, firearms.
On the Covert side … Identity Theft is a “silent killer” affecting millions and the story is getting worse – more victims year after year. We offer the solution you’ve been looking for, monitoring your Credit Bureau Activity (like everyone does) PLUS we provide “restoration” … we restore you back to your “pre-breach” status … this restoration is unique within the industry, others do not provide it and according to the FTC the average victim spends over 800 hours repairing their own credit when victimized – that’s 40% of a complete years work at 40 hours per week. Restoration is a valuable service. Here’s the info if you’re interested.
