Wouldnโt it be nice if there was an easy, centralized place to report cyber fraud?
There is, and itโs called the Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, jointly run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Today, IC3 released its latest annual report, covering all the relevant and telling statistics of 2011. Overall, the center fielded more than 300,000 complaints for the third year running, adding up to losses of nearly a half-billion dollars. The total number of complaints last year rose by 3.4 percent.
Just some of what the report includes:
- A rundown of the yearly complaint totals since IC3 opened in May 2000;
- Lists of the top 10 states for complaints by volume (California was #1) and by population rate (Alaska was the highest);
- Victim dollar losses in many categories with breakdowns by gender;
- The most frequently report Internet frauds and detailed stats on each; and
- Scam alerts issued by IC3 during the year.
We welcome your complaints and use your reports of potential or actual cyber fraud individually and in aggregate as intelligence to fuel our investigations. And they help us get our arms around the latest and most common scams so we can then report that information back to you, along with tips on how to avoid being victimized. (You can find such tips in the report in Appendix I.)
Read the full report for more details. To report a cyber scam, go to http://www.ic3.gov/.
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