There’s a good article in the latest edition of The Atlantic. It summarises the FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report.
- The FBI receives around 200,000 online crime reports a year.
- Fraud on auction sites like eBay caused the most complaints.
- Some of the most expensive crimes were investment fraud ($3,548 per incident) and advance fee fraud ($1,923)
One interesting observation is that social networking is the occasion for a rising number of scams.
