Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Cyber-crime rising, report warns

We may need to consider cyber crime regarding policy, law and ethical issues.

Complaints of internet fraud received by a US watchdog last year rose by 33 percent from 2007, its latest report shows. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which includes the FBI, received 275,284 complaints in 2008, which amounted to losses of USD 265m. The most common complaint was non-delivery of goods followed by internet auction fraud and credit card fraud.

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