FTC Releases Top 10 Consumer Complaint Categories in 2003
The Federal Trade Commission has released its annual report detailing consumer
complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 fraud complaint categories reported by consumers in 2003. For
the fourth year in a row, identity theft topped the list, accounting for 42 percent of the complaints lodged in the
agency's Consumer Sentinel database. The FTC received more than half a million complaints in 2003, up from
404,000 in 2002, and Internet-related complaints accounted for 55 percent of all fraud reports, up from 45 percent in
2002. Read
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