SUA:Online frauds cost almost 198,4 millions $ in 2006
The Internet became a multifunctional tool,useful for the worldwide cybercrooks. The annual report,published by Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2006 shows that the Internet was used for launching 9 different types of frauds,and there were used in this way credit cards, cheques and online auctions.
In the year 2006 they were 207.492 complaints, their total value counts over 198,4 milioane $, the biggest loss registered by users until now. Almost 45% reffered to online frauds auctions.Another favoured method of the hackers for the past time was the threat with death by email.
FBI made a profile of the hackers - three quarts are men, 61% live in USA, other countries on the top of the list were Great Britain, Nigeria, Canada, Romania and Italy.
The victims were men aging 30 and 40 years old, the loss counting up to almost 724$. The biggest sums were taken by “nigerian letters”, with 5.100$ per frauda. 74% of victims were contacted by e-mail and 26 % accessed various web sites.
IC3, apppeared in year 2000 as a partnership between FBI and National White Collar Crime Center, and is functioning as a colecting center of the reports that concern cyber crimes, which then are solved by competent authorities. Statitics for year 2006 don,t represent the situation of all cyber crimes,because most of these are never reported.
Source:http://www.gecadnet.ro/securitate
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