There are many different ways that criminals and fraudsters can steal your identity.
The most common forms of identity theft are:
- 58.9% of all victims experienced the misuse of an existing credit card
- 48.6% of all victims experienced the misuse of existing accounts other than existing credit card accounts
- 21.9% of victims had their personal information used to open a new account or commit some other kind of fraud - for the victims, this type of identity theft can be the hardest to recover from.
- For 38.1% of all victims, the misuse of an existing credit card was the only form of ID theft suffered.
