More than a quarter-million ID theft complaints were lodged with the FTC last year. That number is down slightly from 2005, when ID theft accounted for 37 percent of all complaints. The second-largest number of complaints, 7 percent, came from consumers who were unhappy with products they had ordered from catalogs. Internet-related complaints were up too, but one area of Internet fraud declined noticeably: auctions. The FTC stressed that its consumer complaints data is merely anecdotal, but is working on a more rigorous study of ID fraud trends.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2121768/ftc–id-theft-still-number-one-consumer-complaint.html