The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints <\/a>received by the agency in 2010. And for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was number one. Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 (19%)\u00c2\u00a0 were related to identity theft.\u00c2\u00a0 Debt collection complaints were in second place, with 144,159 complaints.<\/p>\n For the first time, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153imposter scams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where imposters posed as friends, family, respected companies or government agencies to get consumers to send them money \u00e2\u20ac\u201c made the top 10. The FTC also has issued a new consumer alert, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Spotting an Imposter<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, to help consumers avoid imposter scams.<\/p>\n The top consumer complaints were:<\/p>\n
Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n| Category<\/strong><\/td>\n | Number of Complaints<\/strong><\/td>\n | Percentage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 1<\/td>\n | Identity Theft<\/td>\n | 250,854<\/td>\n | 19%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2<\/td>\n | Debt Collection<\/td>\n | 144,159<\/td>\n | 11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3<\/td>\n | Internet Services<\/td>\n | 65,565<\/td>\n | 5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4<\/td>\n | Prizes, Sweepstakes and Lotteries<\/td>\n | 64,085<\/td>\n | 5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 5<\/td>\n | Shop-at-Home and Catalog Sales<\/td>\n | 60,205<\/td>\n | 4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 6<\/td>\n | Imposter Scams<\/td>\n | 60,158<\/td>\n | 4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 7<\/td>\n | Internet Auctions<\/td>\n | 56,107<\/td>\n | 4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 8<\/td>\n | Foreign Money\/Counterfeit Check Scams<\/td>\n | 43,866<\/td>\n | 3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 9<\/td>\n | Telephone and Mobile Services<\/td>\n | 37,388<\/td>\n | 3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 10<\/td>\n | Credit Cards<\/td>\n | 33,258<\/td>\n | 2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the IC3 list released earlier, the FTC publishes it’s own\u00c2\u00a0list of\u00c2\u00a0‘Consumer Complaints’ for\u00c2\u00a02010 The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010. And for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was number one. Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 (19%)\u00c2\u00a0 were related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,37,20,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |