BBB: Identity Theft Worse Off-line Than On-Line


Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy & Research have released a study that indicates

…that despite growing fears about identity theft and online fraud, of the victims that know the identity and method used by the criminal, these crimes are more frequently committed offline than online. Internet-related fraud problems are actually less severe, less costly and not as widespread as previously thought.

However, they put the annual dollar volume of identity fraud still at 52.6 billion dollars in the US.