The Latest Cybercrime Statistics On The Internet

By Lashan Clarke

Losses from fraud on the Internet, has steadily been at a growth of more than twenty percent, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which releases the latest FBI statistics.

Published reports on Thursday, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the results showed a slight decrease in the number complaints of civil fraud on the Internet, but there was a rise $239 million US dollars due to damage from fraud in the United States of America in 2007, compared to $198 million in 2006.

Used by the FBI the online portal IC3 complaint centre handled approximately 207,000 suspected criminal activity, less than 0.6 percent compared to 2006.