Identity Fraud

BBC NEWS | Business | One in four ‘touched’ by ID fraud. “Touched” indeed! They may well use quote marks around that word in their headline as the BBC news site then goes on to say, “A quarter of UK adults have had their identity stolen or know someone who has fallen victim to ID fraud”. Counting up exactly how many have had their identity stolen and counting up those who know someone who has, would give two very different figures. Haven’t they heard of “Six degrees of separation”? Moreover, I suspect that a lot of people might “see” identity theft in a simple banking error, assuming the worst and cancelling all their credit cards just to be on the safe side, so the actual numbers could be even lower than the BBC (on behalf of Which) reports.