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Changing Internet Fraud Trends Highlighted in IC3 2010 ReportQuote:
The IC3 Internet Crime Reports have been providing a valuable insight into the changing trends of Internet crimes since the first one back in 2000. Since then the center has received over 2 million complaints about internet frauds with more than 300,000 received last year alone. To give some perspective to these figures the IC3 equates this to 25,000 a month or 35 complaints an hour. ...