Top ten Internet crimes 2006 (Internet Crime Report 2006)

I really can't believe that there are still people who get trapped by those Nigerian fraud letter...
Well, did I ever told you that you can win a million just by reading this blog???

From the management summary of the report:

Internet auction fraud was by far the most reported offense, comprising 44.9% of referred complaints. Non-delivered merchandise and/or payment accounted for 19.0% of complaints. Check fraud made up 4.9% of complaints. Credit/debit card fraud, computer fraud, confidence fraud, and financial institutions fraud round out the top seven categories of complaints referred to law enforcement during the year.

Of those individuals who reported a dollar loss, the highest median losses were found among Nigerian letter fraud ($5,100), check fraud ($3,744), and other investment fraud ($2,695) complainants.

But read the rest for yourself:
https://www.ic3.gov/media/annualreport/2006_IC3Report.pdf

Urs