The theft of personal data - the most frequent type of fraud

With 380 thousand complaints of fraud filed in 2002, the Federal Trade Commission USA, 43% involved theft of personal data, 13% - deceptions on the Internet auctions, 6% - Internet service providers or computers. For comparison: only 4% of complaints related wagers and lotteries, 2% - of medical services. The total losses of fraud victims in 2002 amounted to 343 million U.S. In 2001, the percentage of complaints of identity theft fraud amounted to 42% share of fraud on the Internet auctions - 10%, the proportion of complaints relating to Internet services - 7%. In doing so, the total number of complaints related to the Internet in 2002 compared with 2001 - m has increased significantly; network gouging cost of 122 million victims U.S., and in 14 cases, the amount of damage amounted to 1 million U.S. or more. In 2001 the number of complaints of identity theft amounted to 86 thousand in 2002 - m - 162 thousand, the largest share - about 36% of cases - was the theft of credit cards.