IC3 letters that 90,008 complaints of abomination to federal, state, and bounded law administration agencies about the country for added consideration. The majority of cases referred declared artifice and complex a banking accident on the allotment of the being authoritative the complaint. The absolute dollar bulk absent from these cases was $239.09 actor with a average dollar accident of $680.00 per complaint. This was an access from $198.44 actor in absolute appear losses in 2006. Therefore, although the cardinal of cases appear went bottomward slightly, the absolute amount to the being who suffers a absent went up.
The WC3 Statistical Breakdown
Perpetrators were predominantly macho (75.8%) and bisected resided in one of the afterward states: California, Florida, New York, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The majority of appear perpetrators were from the United States. However, a cogent cardinal of perpetrators additionally were amid in United Kingdom, Nigeria, Canada, Romania, and Italy.
Among complainants, 57.6% were male, about bisected were amid the ages of 30 and 50 and one-third resided in one of the four best busy states: California, Florida, Texas, and New York. While best were from the United States, IC3 accustomed a cardinal of complaints from Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Mexico.
Males complainants absent added money than females (ratio of $1.67 to every $1.00 absent per female). This may be a action of both online purchasing differences by gender and the blazon of counterfeit schemes by which the individuals were victimized.
Electronic mail (e-mail) (73.6%) and web pages (32.7%) were the two primary mechanisms by which the counterfeit acquaintance took place.
The Agency claims that contempo aerial action scams in 2007 were those involving pets, checks, spam, and online dating sites, all of which accept authentic able as bent accessories in the easily of fraudsters.
Who is WC3?
The Internet Abomination Complaint Center (IC3) is a affiliation amid the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Abomination Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
IC3's mission is to serve as a agent to receive, develop, and accredit bent complaints apropos the rapidly accretion amphitheatre of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber abomination a acceptable and easy-to-use advertisement apparatus that alerts authorities of doubtable bent or civilian violations. For law administration and authoritative agencies at the federal, state, bounded and all-embracing level, IC3 provides a axial barometer apparatus for complaints involving Internet accompanying crimes
How do I book a complaint?
IC3 accepts online Internet abomination complaints from either the being who believes they were defrauded or from a third affair to the complainant. We can best action your complaint if we accept authentic and complete advice from you. Therefore, we appeal that you accommodate the afterward advice back filing a complaint:
- Your name
- Your commitment address
- Your blast number
- The name, address, blast number, and Web address, if available, of the alone or alignment you accept defrauded you.
Specific capacity on how, why, and back you accept you were defrauded. Any added accordant advice you accept is all-important to abutment your complaint.