Fraud costs US consumers $1.2bn

Consumers reported over 670 000 cases of fraud and identity theft in 2006 that cost them $1.2bn in losses, the Federal Trade Commission said in its annual report on Wednesday.

For the seventh straight year, identity theft was the most common complaint, the FTC said, accounting for 36%, or 246 035, of the complaints.

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