Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) regarding identity fraud soared over the Covid-19 pandemic, finishing 2020 at 44% higher than 2019, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by ID-Pal, a leading global identity verification provider. Despite seeing a decrease the following year as normality returned post pandemic, numbers in 2021 are still over 18% higher than pre-pandemic in 2019.

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