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California is the place for Internet fraud

by on14 August 2008

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California is the place to go if you want to suffer from Internet fraud. According to data that Attorney General Jerry Brown's office provided to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, In 2007, California collected 8,622 individual complaints of internet-related fraud; this is almost twice as many as New York. The Big Apple came second.

More than 5,629 focused on possible identity theft, service disputes, spam, spyware and "phishing." The other 2,993 dealt with equipment and software problems. The Internet made up 17 per cent of all fraud complaints received by Californian coppers.

Overall, the FTC reported 221,226 Internet-related fraud complaints in 2007, or 16,000 more than in 2006.

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Last modified on 15 August 2008
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