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Internet Consumer Fraud Continues to Rise January 22, 2003 By Roy Mark The Internet tops the list of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) annual report detailing consumer complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 fraud complaint categories reported by consumers. According to the FTC, 47 percent of non-identity theft complaints were Internet-related, a 31 percent increase since 2000. As in 2000 and 2001, identity theft topped the list, accounting for 43 percent of the complaints lodged in the FTC's Consumer Sentinel database. The number of fraud complaints jumped from 220,000 in 2001 to 380,000 in 2002, and the dollar loss consumers attributed to the fraud they reported grew from $160 million in 2001 to $343 million in 2002. -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
