Stop Blaming the Victims of Identity Theft
by Robert McGarvey
The recent Harris Poll numbers are a splash of icy water on our faces: three in five Americans believe identity theft will likely cause them financial loss in the next year.
That is a finding of a poll done for the American Institute of CPAs.
That number is up from the 50% who in 2018 said they feared a likely loss due to identity theft.
Partly, the jump seems to be pandemic related—there just are a lot more online scams in the internet ether—and partly, too, it’s because all of us are shopping online much more than we had, also because of the pandemic.
Immediately, too, blaming fingers are pointed at consumers. How dumb are we? How do we let this happen?