03-20-2007, 09:38 AM
Quote:An FBI report released Friday indicates that Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all online complaints. In addition to auction fraud, the report includes complaints relating to nondelivery and credit/debit card fraud, as well as nonfraudulent complaints such as computer intrusions, spam and unsolicited e-mail, and child pornography...
Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent, the Internet Fraud Crime Report found. That figure is down from about 63 percent of complaints in the IC3's report in 2005...
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