It takes on average more than 200 days before he realized the victim of identity theft and may be 580 if the fraudster has activated a credit card with data of others.
These are some of the data provided by the Center CRIF credit fraud, which has highlighted how the fraud more difficult to detect are those related all’l'attivazione credit card (average 580 days), debit card credit (542 days) and opening a bank account (479 days).
In contrast, the fraud is discovered more quickly are those perpetrated on purchases in installments with credit card activation (102 days), the request for a loan (190 days), the activation of a number of customers (194 days).
Difficult to define a profile of a victim of credit fraud carried out by identity theft: the analysis of data confirms that indeed are suffering so much higher than men (81%) than women (19%), while most bands including those involved are mainly between 30 and 40 years. In particular, the category most susceptible to fraud attempts is in the thirties (37% of cases), followed by forty (26%), fifty (16%), twenties (12%) and sixty (9%).
But there are professional groups most at risk of credit fraud? Although the perpetrators seem to lose interest in occupational status and social integration of victims, the Center points out, however, as are the professions (including lawyers, accountants and engineers) to be statistically the most affected by this type of crime, followed by employees, workers, pensioners and housewives. Among the dead were also unemployed, demonstrating that none can claim its safe.