1 in 6 people fell victim to identity theft last year, costing consumers and businesses over $50 billion. Only 28% of those people fell victim to financial identity theft, which is the easiest to repair. The other 72% were medical, drivers license, social security and character/criminal identity theft. The AARP just announced that medical cards are being sold on the black market for around $500 each and each card is being sold to multiple people. People with no insurance and illegal aliens are buying these cards left and right. What does this mean to you and me if our insurance card is duplicated and sold?
It means their is somebody out there using your card for doctor visits, blood transfusions, cancer treatments, transplants and it could be multiple people in multiple states. And the average person doesn't know their identity has been stolen for 2-3 years. How do you even begin to fix something like this? You can't on your own. On average it costs identity theft victims $1500 to repair their identity after they find out it has been stolen. Identity Theft Shield is the only identity theft protection agency available that will completely restore your identity if it is stolen at no extra charge.
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According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a report released in 2007 revealed that 8.3 million American adults, or 3.7 percent of all American adults, were victims of identity theft in 2005.[34]
The latest report from the FTC showed that ID theft increased by 21% in 2008. However, credit card fraud, that crime which is most closely associated with the crime of ID theft, has been declining as a percentage of all ID theft. In 2002, 41% of all ID theft complaints involved a credit card. That percentage has dropped to 21% in 2008.[35]
the ftc estimates about 9 million identities each year
Every 100 years.
100,000
1 in 100,000 people get their identity stolen off Facebook each year. there are 500 million users on Facebook
Everyyear
About 100,000 Aboriginal children were stolen in the Stolen Generation
Thousands of cars are stolen every hour around the world. Many are stolen to commit crimes with. many are also stolen just to joyride in (which is also a crime)
About 1 in 700
In nearly all European countries everyone has to have an identity card issued by the government.
thousand of them
The number of phones stolen each day in the UK alone is 300 per day
10 ten thousand million poeple
Shared Identity is when any one person has many defining characteristics and qualities. It is more then likely that the person will have the same characteristics as one or more other people. So when people have a characteristic in common its known as a shared identity.
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it depends on where the are being stolen from. it depends on where the are being stolen from.