According to data provided by the 265 Member organisations of CIFAS, identity fraud remains rife.Despite a slight decrease from the same period last year, nearly 168,000 confirmed cases of fraud were recorded in the first 9 months of 2010. Facility takeover fraud (when a fraudster, rather than impersonating a victim, secretly hijacks and plunders a victim’s accounts) remained high, with over 1 …[more]