Article: Identity Theft Continues to Become More Common.

By Sarah Sue Ingram, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 24--Amy Lee has had a clean credit report for a year. Ditto for Anna Mae Dugger.

But these victims of identity theft still feel indignant and outraged that they were emotionally traumatized, had to spend their own time and money restoring their good names, and still watch the thieves go unpunished.

A year and a half after the Daily Press profiled the cases of Lee and Dugger, the problem has gotten worse: The number of Americans reporting identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission in 2001 was 86,168. That more than quadrupled in 2002, with ...

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