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Article: FBI INTERNET CRIME COMPLAINT CENTER RELEASES STATS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 6, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation issued the following press release:
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that it received 231,493 complaints through its on-line web portal, located at www.ic3.gov, from January 1 through December 31, 2005. This figure compares to 124,509 and 207,499 filings received in 2003 and 2004, respectively. These complaints, which are accessible to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, comprise a variety of fraudulent and non-fraudulent offenses, including auction frauds, reshipping ...