Men are around twice as likely as women to have had their identity stolen, a survey suggests.
More than one in 10 (11%) women said their identity had been stolen, with nearly a quarter (23%) of men also saying this, Nationwide Building Society found.
Of those who said their identity was stolen, a third (33%) said it had been used to order goods such as a mobile phone or a vehicle in their name.
More than a quarter (27%) said it was used to access or steal from their accounts.
One in five (20%) said it was used to borrow money in their name, such as by taking out a credit card or a personal loan.
Nearly a fifth (19%) said their details were used by criminals as part of a scam to impersonate their bank or building society or a public organisation, such as the police, to trick them out of their money.
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of men surveyed were concerned about becoming a victim of identity fraud, compared with seven in 10 (70%) women.
Women were more likely to say they protect all their social media accounts, with 63% doing so compared with 50% of men.
Women were also less likely to have friends or followers on social media that they have never met, with 37% of women having these compared with 53% of men.
Nationwide warned that oversharing information on social media can make people vulnerable to fraud.
Its survey of more than 3,000 people across the UK that found full names, ages, dates of birth, email addresses, mobile numbers and job titles were among the most common items…
