Last year, 30% of Americans reported having their identities stolen, with credit card fraud being the most common type of ...

Getting your identity stolen is anything but a rarity these days. In 2024, more than 1.1 million Americans filed identity ...

NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen has the details. As tax season gets underway, the Federal Trade Commission is issuing a new warning about evolving identity theft scams, urging taxpayers to stay alert.

Previously, government statistics on identity theft were limited, such as the 400,000 consumer complaints filed with the FTC since the fall of 1999. "For the first time, we think we know how big ...

The number of complaints filed with the FTC on any issue has risen from 35,000 a week to 50,000. He says most of the additional complaints are for tax and wage identity theft.

The number of complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission about Internet auctions has nearly doubled from 51,000 in 2002 to more than 98,000 last year, the agency said Tuesday in its annual ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has released its annual report detailing consumer complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 fraud complaint categories reported by consumers in 2003. For ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – It’s Identity Theft Awareness Week and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says identity theft can happen to anyone and can take many forms. The agency and its partners ...

More than 98,000 grievances about online auction transactions were filed with the FTC in 2004, up from 51,000 in 2002, according to the agency's annual report on consumer fraud and identity theft ...