U.S. States with Highest Consumer Fraud

24/7 Wall Street published an analysis of consumer fraud that ranked the top ten states in terms of complaints to the Federal Trade Commission per 100,000 people. FTC complaints are put in two categories: identity theft complaints and other fraud complaints. Identity theft was the top category with debt collection fraud coming in second. Here are the top ten states as published by 24/7 Wall Street:

Fraud alert: LifeLock is a joke! (A bad one too...)

Have you ever seen the ads for LifeLock? They are the company that posted the social security number of its CEO, Todd Davis, on a truck and claimed that they could protect you from identity theft with a $1 million guarantee. They did the same in TV ads, until the FTC accused them of false advertising and made them pay $12 million earlier this year. An article in CNN/Money states: