Conmen have tried to trick people into handing over details online
Identity fraud is costing the UK an estimated £1.7bn every year, Home Office Minister Andy Burnham has said.
At £35 per person, the estimated annual cost was greater than that of planned compulsory national identity cards, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.


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