Crime & Court

2020 : FBI received 443 internet crime complaints from Nigeria

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received a total of 443 internet crime complaints from Nigeria in 2020 according to report.

This was contained in the 2020 Internet Crime Report of the United States intelligence agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) report published yesterday.

The report revealed that Nigeria has the same number of complaints as Pakistan and ranks 16th ahead of China (442), Colombia (418), and Hong Kong (407) in a list of 20 countries.

The United Kingdom topped the list with 216,633 complaints and is followed by Canada (5,399), India (2,930), Greece (2,314), Australia (1,807), South Africa (1,754), and France (1,640).

Other countries are Germany (1,578), Mexico (1,164), Belgium (1,023), Brazil (951), the Philippines (898), Italy (728), Spain (618), and Netherlands (450).

While complaints from the U.S. were given a special focus and broken down according to the states, the report comprised information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime.

The latest figure, according to the report indicates an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 and losses exceeding $4.2 billion.

Phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, as well as extortion, were the top-three crimes reported by victims in the year under review.

Also, victims lost the most money to business email compromise scams, romance and confidence schemes, as well as investment fraud.

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