ID THEFT PROTECT - Identity Theft and Identity Fraud
Statistics
92.6% of all e-mail messages are spam.
(2006, Postini)
PEOPLE in the UK lose £3.5BILLION to scams each every year — equivalent to about £70 per adult.
(2007, OFT)
15 million Americans (mid 2005 to mid 2006) were victims of fraud that stemmed from identity theft, an increase of more than 50 percent from the estimated 9.9 million in 2003.
(2007 - Gartner Study)
UK online banking fraud leapt 44 per cent in 2006 following a rise in the number of phishing attacks.
(2007 - APACS Study)
Some six million people in the UK claim to have been a victim of identity theft and many are under the age of 30.
