The FTC released a new Sentinel Network Data Book this week, listing top complaints as follows and in this order by number of complaints: Debt collection, Identify Theft, Imposter Scams, Telephone and Mobile Services, Prizes, Sweepstakes and Lotteries, Banks and Lenders, Shop-at-Home and Catalogue Sales, Auto, Television and Electronic Media, Credit Bureaus, Furnishers and Report Users.
By a large margin, complaints about debt collectors has the number 1 spot as top complaint generator in 2015, with 897,655 such complaints. Identify theft came in at number 2, with 490,220 complaints.