Canada: 7,800 Victims, $16M Stolen, Zero Arrests
Janice Tibbetts writes in The Ottawa Citizen:
Despite an explosion in identity theft, the only effort to track the crime in Canada is through a tiny initiative in northern Ontario that has a name that sounds a lot like the movie Ghostbusters.More here.
The phone rings up to 1,200 times a day at the Phonebusters anti-fraud call centre, but the dozen or so call-takers are so swamped that most victims hang up while they're waiting in the queue.
"I don't think we're touching the surface," concedes Det.-Sgt. Debbie Bell, the Ontario Provincial Police officer who runs the centre.
(Props, Pogo Was Right.)
posted by Fergie @ 7/05/2007 10:40:00 AM
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