ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
Customers of Orange UK find that 96.9% of all received emails are made up of spam.
(ClearMyMail Research, August 2008)
On average 30,846 spam emails were blocked per customer in Q2 2008 in comparison to just 8,156 emails blocked per customer in Q1 of the same year.
(ClearMyMail Research, August 2008)
Identity theft cost Californians an estimated $749 million in out of pocket expenses in 2007.
(Identity Theft 911(R), August 2008)
California residents spent an estimated minimum six million hours - or 250,000 days - resolving identity theft issues.
(Identity Theft 911(R), August 2008)
Of the 50 metropolitan areas ranked highest by the FTC in terms of consumer identity theft complaints, 16 were in California, which contributed the most high-ranking cities in any state.
