February 3, 2003 edition of TIME Magazine says:
86,000 - Number of complaints of identity theft received by the FTC in 2001
162,000 - Number of complaints of identity theft received by the FTC in 2002
Hope you get that taken care of....Best Buy claimed that I owed them $850 last year for a washer/dryer set that I never ordered (or even looked at) at their store. I don't even have an account there - they got in via my driver's license and a check with someone else's name on it. It wasn't until they finally produced the copy of the bad check that I proved someone had just rattled off a DL # and happened to pick mine. :grrr:
Good luck!