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The Government appear to be sitting on their hands, and that is just not good enough. Cifas data makes the scale of this problem quite plain. Total National Fraud Database cases hit 421,000 in 2024, up 13% from 2023, driven by surges in account takeovers, to 76%. Identity fraud was dominant at 59% of cases at over 249,000, so this is not a niche or emerging problem. Identity fraud is the dominant form of fraud in this country, and we have left its foundational act—digital identity theft—entirely outside the criminal law.