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I found these identity theft stats through a side track in another area of research, I thought they were interesting:

In 2007 the FTC logged around 800,000 identity theft cases, of these:
- 32% Involved Identity Theft
- 68% Involved other types of Identity Fraud

Of these 800,000 cases, 23% involved a credit card account. But cases where new unapproved accounts were opened outnumbered abuse of existing accounts by two to one.

Other popular ways that thieves are using other people’s identities:
- Opening utility accounts (18%)
- For employment (14%)
- Government benefits fraud (11%)
- Loan fraud (5%)
- Other forms of bank fraud (13%)

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