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• 7.7% of the plaintiffs were victims of a fraud of between 5,000 and
10,000 dollars;
• 7% of the plaintiffs were victims of a fraud of between 10,000 and one
million dollars;
• 0.3% of the plaintiffs were victims of a fraud of over one million
dollars.
The IC3 2011 report provides interesting statistics on the nature of cyber-
crimes reported in the USA.
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The major fraud types reported in 2011 were as follows:
• work-from-home-scams (17,352).
• FBI impersonation scams (14,350).
• loan intimidation scams (9,968).
• romance scams (5,663).
• auto-auction fraud (4,066).
The top ve reported ...