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Identity theft affected 8.3 million adults, or 3.7 percent of the adult U.S population, in 2005, according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study. The report is based on 4,917 telephone interviews with a random sample of American adults.
For the study, the FTC categorized ID theft victims according to specific Federal U.S. laws. It estimated that 3.3 million American adults, or 1.5 percent of the adult population, experienced the misuse of one or more of their existing non-credit card accounts in 2005. This fraud category included checking, saving or telephone accounts.
Based on the study, the FTC also estimated that in 2005 there were 3.2 million fraud victims in the category of “existing credit cards.”
In addition, there were 1.8 million victims in the category of “new accounts and other fraud,” where fraudsters opened new accounts in the victims’ names, or committed other frauds using their ID.
In most cases, victims are not legally responsible for the cost of fraudulent transactions by ID thieves using their personal information, the report points out. In more than 50 percent of ID thefts, victims incurred no out-of-pocket expenses, the FTC says.
The greatest cost to victims was the number of hours they spent resolving problems caused by ID theft, the FTC found. The amount of time spent by these victims ranged from a median four hours to the 130 hours spent by the top 5 percent of victims.
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