Five Interesting Identity Theft Stories From 2009
While many identity theft cases have been reported on this website during the past year, there are a few tales that rise above the others in terms of uniqueness and how they impacted the ongoing debate on how to combat identity theft. Here are five fascinating identity theft tales from 2009:
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July 2009: In what has to be one of the longest cases of identity theft on record, the Associated Press (AP) reported the shocking tale of Tom Lesh, 66, of Coos Bay, Oregon, who had suffered from identity theft for 35 years – in other words, over half of his go. Lesh said he has known in view of the fact that the 1970s that his identity was stolen by a friend of his brother and he had spent, in his words, “thousands of hours” over the decades in view of the fact that repeatedly trying to clear his name and right his fiscal records and credit history by writing letters to credit card companies, banks, and regime agencies – and even appealing to the alleged identity thief’s mother for help. -
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These are just a few of the literally millions of tales about identity theft. According to Javelin Approach & Research, identity theft and fraud increased 22 percent in 2008, affecting nearly ten million Americans. Overall, approximately 1.8 million extra adults fell victim to identity fraud in 2008 as compared to 2007, the first year-over-year increase in view of the fact that Javelin started collecting data in 2004.
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