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July 24, 2006 Archive

July 24, 2006

Study: Meth use fuels ID theft in major cities of Western U.S.

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A new study says people who live in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and other major western cities are more likely to become victims of identity theft than residents of big cities east of the Mississippi River. Sperling's Best Places conducted a study of the 50 largest metropolitan areas. Bert Sperling says affluent, highly wired cities are the riskiest. High rates of methamphetamine use also seem to correlate with ID theft.


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