1.7M Canadians victims of ID theft: survey (Victoria Times Colonist)

Story date: 2008-11-18 05:46:42
Added on: 2008-11-18 11:51:27

Victims of identity fraud spent more than $150 million of their own money and spent 20 million hours to resolve the fraud in the past year as part of a ballooning problem that struck almost 1.7 million Canadians, a survey has found.


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