![]() ![]() He said one day he filled out an affidavit about a charge and the next day the bank had accepted similar charges approaching $4,000. He called his bank immediately and started what began a tiresome process of filling out what he said finally amounted to about 20 affidavits swearing that he was not responsible for the charges. ![]() ![]() "All of a sudden it really got bad," he said. He had a full-time job then and was spending out of an account that generally held $30,000. He first noticed suspicious activity in his account in February of 2009 for small charges of $37 or $17.98. Once an avid fan of online shopping and banking, the Bowie, Md., resident would auction on, download songs from and use his ATM card like a credit card. "It's an easy crime to perpetrate, a crime that's almost impossible to catch when done in a sophisticated manner and a crime in which enforcement is very limited." Endless paperworkĬrouse can attest to that. "The odds have never been higher for becoming a fraud victim," said James Van Dyke, Javelin president and founder. The cost to the victims: a collective $54 billion. That figure is up 12% over 2008 and is 37% ahead of 2007. adults - last year who have the dubious distinction of breaking the record of the number of identity-fraud victims in the U.S., according to a recent study by Javelin Strategy and Research. "It ruined me financially and emotionally."Ĭrouse is among the 11.1 million adults - one in every 20 U.S. My identity is public knowledge and even though it's ruined, they're still using it. ![]()
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