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FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center affirms in its report that Internet fraud in the U.S. increased by 33% in 2008 and continues rising for the first time in three years. Early indicators for 2009 are not cheerful either, they showed a 50% increase in reported Internet fraud complaints with February to March 2009.    
 
http://ecommerce-journal.com/news/14725_the_number_of_internet_fraud_increased_twice_at_the_beginning_of_2009
Internet fraud complaints received by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and a non-profit consumer protection organization, seem to reveal that online scam victims lost about $25 million more in 2008 than in 2007, but the IC3 concedes its numbers might be skewed by an increased effort to make filing [...]
Online Fraud Hits New High, Driven By Recession
28, Apr 2009Internet fraud losses reported in the United States reached a record high $264.6 million in 2008, according to a report released on Monday from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, run by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.  CNBC reports Online scams originating from across the globe—mostly from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Nigeria [...]