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Identity theft has increased as the effects of the credit crunch bite more deeply into the British economy, it has been asserted.
Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service, has noted that there has been a considerable increase in the number of incidents where a criminal takes over their victim's bank account.
Kate Beddington-Brown, head of communications with the organisation, warned that there could be a number of reasons for the rise in fraud but that it was partly down to an increase in the number of phishing attacks.
This "use of an increasing number of sophisticated spoof emails and websites designed to deceive recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card or bank account numbers and passwords" was highlighted by a recent report, she added.
Ms Beddington-Brown was referring to information recently published by Apacs, the UK payments association, which revealed that almost one in three people do not have anti-spyware software on their PCs, despite an increase in phishing attempts.
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