Weld was No. 1 in the nation in recent years, consumer complaints of fraud
Maybe a lot of people in Weld County, namely, you can call a good situation.Perhaps also to complain.But few agree that Weld, better known as the Confederation of statisticians Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area, is also full of fraud Federal Trade Commission proposed in the report.The FTC this week reported that for the year 2006, Weld was No. 1 in the nation with 466 consumer complaints of fraud by 100000 people, but also reported, the fourth component of the Nation to the usurpation of identity, with 245 complaints per 100000 Humans.
“We are certainly not see this kind of figures we for the prosecution,” said Weld District Attorney Ken Buck. “We have already in the field of fight against fraud for a moment, because we believe that we have a problem here, but these numbers are even higher than we thought. No. 1 in the ranking of countries is rather a problem that I thought we had. ”
Several agencies make consumers of the FTC on fraud, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Social Security Administration and the Internet Crime Complaint Center, to name a few. Complaints are not transmitted by local police authorities.
Similarly, many complaints, but not that the local police.”What I think happens is that sometimes people report that it is a foreign power or report to provide any type of fraud over the Internet … but they never report us, because they have not been suckered, “A said Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner. “We get consumers and, of course, fraud, we had some results on identity theft, but if you click fraud, man, write bad checks or use (someone One other controls) are our biggest problems.
Buck’s Bureau of last year 331 cases of fraud, including identity theft, falsification of documents and criminal impersonations.The FTC report showed that Weld, 1023 complaints from consumers during 2006, mostly because the Internet or by e-mail response.
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