Impostor scams surpass ID theft among U.S. consumer complaints: FTC

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Reuters - 3/3/2017 - Jonathan Stempel - More U.S. consumers complained about imposter scams than identity theft for the first time in 2016, as fraudsters relied more on the phone and less on email to find victims, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday. Impostor scams accounted for 406,578 of the 3,050,374 consumer complaints received in 2016 by the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network, just above the 399,225 received for identity theft, the agency said. Debt collection generated 859,090, or 28 percent, of all complaints, more than any other category. Complaints overall fell 3 percent from the record 3,140,803 set a year earlier. Read more @ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-f ... SKBN16A26X