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10 Facts About Identity Theft

ten FACTS ABOUT IDTHEFT ID THEET It can take up to 5,840 hours to correct the damage from ID Theft. THAT'S LIKE BEING LOCKED IN PRISON FOR 8 MONTHS... Existing account fraud in the U.S. was $31 billion in 2008. ID ENOUGH TO BUY 95 BOEING 747 AIRPLANES. ..... ..... People between ages 20-29 have the highest incidence of ID theft totalling 56,678 of all 2010 ID theft complaints. gee THAT'S ABOUT THE ACTUAL AGE OF ALL THE "HIGH SCHOOLERS" ON GLEE. IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO THE GLEE KIDS, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE. California has the highest incidence of ID theft complaints with 38,148 in 2010. YOU WOULD THINK SCHWARZENEGGER WOULD DO A BETTER JOB “TERMINATING" ID THEFT.. APPARENTLY NOT. 1 in every 10 U.S. consumers has already been victimized by ID theft. IMAGINE 10% OF MILLIONS OF RAGING FEMALE BIEBER FANS GETTING THEIR POSTERS TAKEN AWAY. 47% of victims have trouble getting credit or a loan as a result of ID theft. CHARLIE SHEEN WOULD SAY THOSE 47% ARE NOT WINNING. 50.2 million Americans were using a credit monitoring service as of September 2008. LADY GAGA DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THAT MANY FACEBOOK FANS! Businesses across the world lose $221 billion a year to ID theft. THAT'S LIKE BUYING AN IPOD NANO FOR EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN OF CHINA. Out of 105,471 that complained to the FTC in 2010 about fraud, the combined monetary loss exceeded $345,700,000. THAT'S EVEN MORE THAN OPRAH MAKES! The mean cost per victim is $500. IP THAT'S ENOUGH TO BUY 125 HAPPY MEALS.NOT SO HAPPY NOW, ARE YOU? Sponsored by WizardGuard.com Sources: http://ftc.gov/sentinel/reports/sentinel-annual-reports/sentinel-cy2010.pdf http://www.spendonlife.com/guide/identity-theft-statistics http://www.spamlaws.com/id-theft-statistics.html http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/documents/reports/2010/11-01-10mass-market-fraud.pdf

10 Facts About Identity Theft

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No one likes for things to be stolen from them. And what’s the worst thing to get stolen, that would be your identity for 100 Mr. Trebek. With over 100K people complaining of fraud every year, there...

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