Demands for immediate payment in the guise of texts from state toll authorities are being made coast to coast, FTC says.

The average loss per complaint jumped from $5,300 in 2020 to nearly $12,900 in 2022. The IC3 report found phishing as the most commonly reported cybercrime. In this scheme, an attacker sends an ...

Read more: How to Prevent Spam Callers From Leaving Voicemail If you fall victim to an investment scam, report it to authorities like the IC3 immediately. The IC3 online complaint registration ...

For the second consecutive year, 2009 saw a substantial increase in online crime complaints, according to the annual Internet Crime Report issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

Of the 336,655 complaints submitted to IC3, 146,663 were referred to local ... according to the report. The median dollar loss of complainants in 2009 was $575. Complaints that were not referred ...