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BEC Still #1, but Investment Fraud passes Romance Scams
March 23, 2022, 5:23 a.m. | Gary Warner
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https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2021_IC3Report.pdf
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report.
The number of complaints increased by 7% to 847,376 from 2020 to 2021, however the reported losses increased by 64% year over year to $6.9 Billion!
For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. But this year, we had a change! The criminals have discovered how many people don't understand investing in cryptocurrency and …
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