Internet Fraud Report Shows Increase

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Total Losses Rose $42 Million From 2006

IC3 is a joint effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Crime Council (NW3C), a non-profit corporation funded by Congress to help analyze and find ways to combat internet crime.
 Victims of internet crime - or recipients of suspicious email - are encouraged to report the incident to the IC3 at their website http://www.ic3.gov/

The median loss from internet scams was $680 in 2007
 
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Great article.
Excellent "heads up" info, well-written and researched.
I get phishing emails, one supposedly from PayPal keeps coming in. They are persistent!
I've noticed an increase in the spam messages. Some are pretty convincing, but unless I personally know the organization and have requested info, I report them as spam and block their email. Very informative article. Thanks for sharing!
Great report....Internet fraud seems to be growing increasingly each year. Its pretty scary....
I receive scam e-mails all the time, it is crazy. Thank you for a very informative article!!!
Scary how high tech swindling is these days. Great article!
wow crazy
I gotta tell you, I had one of these when Harry was in Iraq they sent me an e-mail asking me to help move millions of dollars out of the country, I turned it over to the military police. They called it the Afghanastan (sp wrong) scam. It was very stressful for me but I did the right thing. Great article.
Very scary indeed. It seems now that many of the scams revolve around spin-offs of the Nigerian check scam and whatnot. I can't even tell you how many of those emails that I get per day. It's insane.
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