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The FBI warned that attackers are spoofing the official Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website to steal personal data and commit financial fraud, targeting users who report cybercrimes.

The fake websites mimic the real IC3 domain by making slight changes in spelling or top-level domains, tricking users into submitting sensitive details such as names, addresses, emails, and banking information.  Victims may unknowingly land on these sites while trying to file cybercrime complaints, exposing them to

Crypto took a major hit last year with losses exceeding $5.6 billion, mainly driven by investment fraud, tech support scams, and social engineering via government impersonation.  Latest findings published by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the product of almost 70,000 reports, marks this 45% rise as a new record high for the industry.  The US alone accounts for $4.8 billion of these reported cases, followed by the Cayman Islands, Mexico, Canada, the UK, India, and Australia.

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published its 2019 Internet Crime Report which stated that cybercrime was behind individual and business losses of $3.5 billion, represented by 467,361 reported complaints received last year.  Under the subsection titled: “Reported Complaints,” many individuals and businesses did not report their losses and this dollar amount of losses is under reported.  IC3 says that it has received 4,883,231 complaints since its inception in May 2000, with an av