18 May 2012

Cybercrimes (via cell phones) up in 2011


Addicted as we are to our online life and our mobile devices, it's no surprise that a growing number of cybercriminals are lurking out there with us.
Their newest target is right in our hands: our cellphones.
Complaints of cybercrime topped 314,000 in 2011 -- up 3.4 percent from the previous year -- and California led the nation, according to a new report issued by the Internet Crime Complaint Center.......
Online crime occurs in varied forms, from identity theft that uses personal information to commit fraud, to phony job schemes involving bad check deposits, to "romance scams" that seduce the lovelorn to send money to a pseudo-suitor. Nationwide, the average victim who filed a complaint last year was duped out of $4,187, reported the center, known as IC3....

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