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Consumers told it to the FTC: Top 10 complaints for 2014 | Consumer Information

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Consumers told it to the FTC: Top 10 complaints for 2014

February 27, 2015
by 
Colleen Tressler
Consumer Education Specialist, FTC
Today, the FTC announced its top 10 consumer complaints for 2014. Of the more than 2.5 million consumer complaints received…
  • Identity theft once again tops the list, with 13 percent of total complaints filed.
  • Debt collection held steady as the second-most-reported complaint, with 11 percent.
  • Imposter scams — where con artists impersonate government officials or others — moved into third place on the list of consumer complaints, entering the top three complaint categories for the first time. The increase in imposter scams was led by a sharp increase in complaints about IRS and other government imposter frauds.
  • Rounding out the field: Telephone and mobile services; banks and lenders; prizes, sweepstakes and lotteries; auto-related complaints; shop-at-home and catalog sales; television and electronic media; and finally, internet services.
Florida, Georgia and Nevada are the top three states for fraud per capita and other complaints, while Florida, Washington and Oregon are the top three for identity theft complaints. 
For a complete list of all complaint categories, check out page six of the FTC’s 2014 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book.
Your complaints matter at the FTC. If a business doesn’t deliver on its promises, if someone cheats you out of your money, or if you've spotted a scam, tell it to the FTC. Your complaints help us stop rip-off artists, scammers and fraudsters. The FTC’s aggressive law enforcement efforts put the bad guys out of business, and our vigorous consumer education campaigns empower people just like you to make well-informed buying decisions and recognize frauds and scams.
Tagged with: complaint, debt collection, fraud, identity theft,imposter, scam
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Comments

Beaner | February 27, 2015 
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Why aren't you doing anything about telemarketers? I report the numbers to the Do Not Call Registry, but these people still keep calling me. A lot of them are scams.
BR 549 | February 27, 2015 
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Around here it is the sorry auto insurance company like(All snake) and (Snake Farm) just to name two of the most sorry
RPorcille | February 27, 2015 
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How about finally putting an end to "business opportunity" fraud in the way of MLM companies like Herbalife that are poorly disguised pyramid schemes? Thousands of people are being ripped off daily!
mm | February 27, 2015 
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Make sure you put Ocwen Loan services on top of your list
bfritts1947 | February 27, 2015 
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All of these scams, hackings, illegal debt collections, continual illicit phone and internet scams do not surprise me one bit; and all of this will not get any better any time soon; in fact, I see this getting worse. We have all of this hi-tech equipment which has allowed these criminally-minded people to get into our lives; and many of us doing whatever we can to protect ourselves from them -- but there is no where to escape all of this illegal activity going on within our country and in the world. In order to do so, we would have to remove all devices from our homes, even our telephones, and these criminals would still find a way to get us!!
fedup | February 27, 2015 
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I have been getting calls for a survey so they say but they are calling early as 7:20am to 10:20 pm I have kept it on my phone just for the time and ask to not call even on a sunday they call
enrique montero | February 27, 2015 
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IRS impostor. Wants me to sens the money I suposely owe to the IRS inspector at 571=2105561.No name given, If I fail to comply, I will be arrested by police. Date of incident02/23/15, at 08:02 AM.
MaryB | February 27, 2015 
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There are lots of scams out there but contacting the FTC doesn't always work. How do you know they've even received your complaint? I complained and never received any reply.
fclevenger | February 27, 2015 
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NCL called us and told us if we would book a cruise through them and pricing went down the would give us the better price. Pricing went down and they admit to it but they said they will only give us 25% of the reduction of $380.
Sergelaguerre55 | February 27, 2015 
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My mother is old and something very agited when the phone ringing,unfortunately somebody very early in the morning and sometime during the day kept on calling without talking.I put that number her number in do not call list,it is still happened.We are very tired and upseted about that.
judytoby | February 27, 2015 
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At least the million $ Jamaica lottery has stopped calling. Thank you.


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