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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 812000" data-attributes="member: 12952">Texas border – ID theft hot spot&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Identity theft: Texas border, Brooklyn among nation’s ID theft hot spotsBy Isaac Wolf,Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON — Want to lessen your odds of becoming a victim of identity theft? Don’t move to Brownsville, Texas.More specifically, stay out of the city’s ZIP code, 78521.That ZIP code has the dubious distinction of generating the most&nbsp; identity theft complaints during the last half-decade, according to a&nbsp; Scripps Howard News Service analysis of more than 1.4 million reports&nbsp; made by consumers to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.Residents from that ZIP code generated 1,513 complaints — far more&nbsp; than the 922 complaints from the second-place ZIP code, 90044, near&nbsp; Inglewood, Calif.Another nearby Brownsville ZIP code, 78520, ranks 12th nationally&nbsp; with 813 consumer complaints. Also high on the list are ZIP codes in&nbsp; Texas towns near Brownsville, including Mission, Pharr and Weslaco.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 812000, member: 12952"] [B]Texas border – ID theft hot spot[/B] [B]Identity theft: Texas border, Brooklyn among nation’s ID theft hot spots By Isaac Wolf, Scripps Howard News Service WASHINGTON —[/B] Want to lessen your odds of becoming a victim of identity theft? Don’t move to Brownsville, Texas. More specifically, stay out of the city’s ZIP code, 78521. That ZIP code has the dubious distinction of generating the most identity theft complaints during the last half-decade, according to a Scripps Howard News Service analysis of more than 1.4 million reports made by consumers to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Residents from that ZIP code generated 1,513 complaints — far more than the 922 complaints from the second-place ZIP code, 90044, near Inglewood, Calif. Another nearby Brownsville ZIP code, 78520, ranks 12th nationally with 813 consumer complaints. Also high on the list are ZIP codes in Texas towns near Brownsville, including Mission, Pharr and Weslaco. [/QUOTE]

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