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| | Center for Problem-Oriented Policing |
 | | Identity theft is a new crime, facilitated through established, underlying crimes such as forgery, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud, computer fraud, impersonation, pickpocketing, and even terrorism. |
 | | The FTC reports that identity theft is the major subject of consumer complaints it receives—42 percent of all those received in 2003. |
 | | Identity theft victims experience long-term and well-documented pain and suffering,7 such as harassment from debt collectors, banking problems, loan rejection, utility cutoffs, and even arrest for the identity thief’s other crimes. |
| www.popcenter.org /Problems/problem-identity_theft.htm (4248 words) |
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