Opportunities for identity theft grow during the season of holiday shopping.
Stan Hays dodged several attempts to steal his identity.
Jim Pascover was not as happy - month after his checks were stolen, it remains the treatment of Fallout.
Phyllis bed falls somewhere in the middle.
Since the holidays approach and the crowds and shop online, the opportunities for identity thieves do not develop that miscreants are not active during the year.
“ID theft allows a wrong type of throw, as checks on your accounts, for example,” said Tom Vleisides, Alliance leader in the management of Parkville, Mo., Carreker Corp., Dallas-payment of companies.
“The stakes are high enough,” said Pascover, director of marketing and communications for the Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. Some Pascover’s checks were stolen in May.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumer spending in the context of identity theft reached $ 5 billion in 2002, a fraction of the 48 billion dollars of losses in the company and financial institutions suffered.
Depending on how you define large identity theft and when your poll was taken, victims last year numbered 700000 9 million euros, said.
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