Archive for September 22nd, 2009

Bryant Daily – By LANA CLIFTON

Identity theft is a growing concern all across America. According to a document released by the Federal Trade Commission in February of 2009, over 313,000 complaints of identity theft were recorded by the Consumer Sentinel Network. These numbers were up from just under 260,000 complaints in 2007 and showed a huge increase since 2000 when only 31,140 were filed. Twenty-four percent of the 2008 complaints were due to suspects opening new credit accounts or loans fraudulently or committing other fraudulent credit card actions.

Dawn Creekmore, Arkansas State Representative for District 27, decided something should be done to allow consumers to protect themselves against such fraud. She decided a law should be on the books in Arkansas to make it possible for consumers to freeze credit history information until they were ready to access it for legitimate reasons.
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