The Associated Press just reported on November 28th 2007 the results of a survey done by the Federal Trade Commission, the results the FTC came up with stated that the occurrence of ID theft was down 16 percent, from an anticipated 9.9 million victims to 8.3 for people over the age of 18, of course a few consumer advocacy groups disputed their findings stating that it was difficult to get a precise handle on the number of victims due to a number of factors one of them is that people don’t often know what exactly is in their credit report.