Press release
More than 6,000 victims of identity fraud contacted credit information firm Experian last year, compared with 3,500 in 2006.London remains the UK’s identity fraud capital, with residents almost twice as likely to fall victim than the rest of the population while residents in affluent Kensington are three-and-a-half more times likely to suffer identity fraud compared with the UK average.
Those living in London’s Richmond-upon-Thames, Putney, Wimbledon and the Kings Road area in Chelsea are also among those at highest risk.
SW16 6 – centred on College Gardens in Tooting, south London – is almost five times more likely that the UK average to experience identity fraud.
Outside of London, postcodes where the risk of fraud is more than four times the UK average include CB23 5 (Great Cambourne near Cambridge), NN4 5 (Far Cotton, Northampton) and TS17 5 (Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees).
The typical identity fraud victim is aged between 26 and 45 and earning more than £50,000 a year.
