The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States said in a report published today, Wednesday, that the losses related to electronic crime, of all kinds, in the world amounted to more than 16 billion dollars last year.
He explained that what led to an increase in losses by about a third from 2023, mainly simple fraud, such as fraud on beginners investors by seizing their money online, or deceiving corporate employees with fake email messages to convert large sums into bank accounts for criminals.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that the illusion of technical support and emotional fraud operations also caused hundreds of millions of dollars.
He said that the Internet Crime Complaint Center collected those numbers and data, and the center became dedicated to the exchange of fraud and digital piracy reports and received nearly 860 thousand complaints.
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Difficulty calculating
It is known that the losses caused by electronic crimes are difficult to calculate, and the Federal Bureau of Bureau of Investigation from the most comprehensive, but the office acknowledged that its accounts are incomplete, especially ransom software, a very harmful type of software used by electronic infiltrators to blackmail institutions to pay a ransom in exchange for their data.
Although the complaints collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation came from all over the world, the vast majority of them are from the United States.
