FTC Releases Annual List of Top Consumer Complaints
The Federal Trade Commission has issued its annual report, “Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data,” (PDF) reporting on complaints consumers have filed with the agency. For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the list, accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Other categories near the top of the complaint list include shop-at-home/catalog sales; prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries; Internet services and computer complaints; and Internet auction fraud.
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