California Ranks Third In US For Identity Theft Claims

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California ranks 3rd in the country for identity theft, with credit card fraud accounting for nearly half of all crimes in that category.
The Federal Trade Commission’s Sentinel Network Data Book is a yearly report analyzing all consumer claims. It classifies the fraud into a number of categories, including debt collection, identity theft, prizes/sweepstakes/lotteries, and telephone/mobile services.
In California, debt collection (24%) led the list of most report