Posted on 03/12/2010 12:05:52 PM PST by Slyscribe
Internet crime’s always been a problem, of course, but the magnitude of the problem has taken a big leap. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership of the National While Collar Crime Center and the FBI, today presented its annual report, and it’s a doozy. The dollar loss associated with Internet crime complaints received by IC3 last year jumped to $559.7 million from $264.6 million in 2008. That’s a 112% increase.
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Is it a crime to get idiots to donate money to you for snail mucus?
Just wondering.
Probably not. I’ll bet the majority of internet crime dollars are stolen by large, seemingly legitimate long-term companies that just decided they could make up their shortfalls by stealing from their existing customers.
That would make an interesting investigation for someone
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