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Little is know about the scope of child identity theft and how criminals use personal information to commit crime - until now. ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, is a sponsor of new, comprehensive research conducted by Javelin Strategy & Research that finds that one in 40 households with children under age 18 had at least one child whose personal information was compromised by identity criminals. Moreover, the information is often used to create "synthetic...

Javelin Strategy & Research released a report of their annual survey of consumer fraud on Tuesday which showed total reported fraud was down to $37 billion in 2010 from $56 billion in 2009. The average out-of-pocket loss soared however to $631 from $387 -- an increase of more than 60 percent, Reuters reports.The number of identity theft victims fell by more than 25 percent in the US last year, the largest annual drop on record, but individual victims lost more money on average than ever...