Friday, April 13, 2012

FTC Identity Theft - Fri Apr 13, 2012


Georgia 8th most fraudulent state
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Georgia's been named the 8th Most Fraudulent State in America, in large part because of an alarmingly high amount of identity theft. To determine which states had the highest incidence of fraud, 24/7 Wall St. studied Federal Trade Commission data on ...
US Rep. Wasserman Schultz to introduce tougher tax-ID theft bill
Sun-Sentinel (blog)
Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties lead the nation's largest metro areas in reported identity theft, according to a report released last month by the Federal Trade Commission. The three counties had 17546 reports of identity theft in 2011, ...

Protect your kids from ID theft
MSN Money
The FTC received more than 19000 complaints about child identity theft last year -- more than triple the number in 2003. A year ago, Carnegie Mellon University released a study of more than 40000 kids (.pdf file) -- and found that more than 10 percent ...


Md. passes measure to address child identity theft
WTOP
By BRIAN WITTE AP ANNAPOLIS, Md. - As more and more children are having their credit ratings damaged by identity theft before they think of borrowing a dime, Maryland lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind measure to enable parents to take steps ...
One Direction sues One Direction, Simon Cowell over identity theft
WJLA
By Skip Wood Daybreak Daily's afternoon workout in the pop-culture gym finds a lawsuit aimed in one direction, a renewed musical collaboration, other things, and the mystery music video. WHICH DIRECTION?: Thing is, the party suing has benefited from ...
America's Worst States for Fraud
24/7 Wall St.
According to the most recent report published by the Federal Trade Commission, there were more than 1.8 million complaints of fraud, identity theft or some other deceptive business practices last year. This is up roughly 40% from 2010.


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