Aug 19 2009 |  |
I think that I am slipping - it is August 20 and I still have not updated this blog with Phonebuster's identity theft statistics from July 2009! July 2009 saw the continuation of a scary trend that I mentioned in last month's article - fewer victims are getting defrauded out of significantly more money.
In July 2009, 714 people reported being defrauded out of $982,748.15. This compares to June 2009, when 984 people reported being defrauded out of $828,029.53. So far in 2009, 7,841 people reported being defrauded out of $6,467,582.67! Considering that a very small percentage of identity theft victims report the crime to Phonebusters, these numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. Identity theft costs are soaring and individuals are losing more money per theft than they did just a few months ago.
If these numbers continue, 2009 is going to set new records in identity theft, malicious software and SPAM. How much longer can these numbers keep growing?
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