(NEXSTAR) — From romance scams to actual property schemes, the U.S. noticed over 847,000 complaints of suspected web crimes in 2021, a new FBI report exhibits. That’s a 7% improve from 2020.
The reported complaints amounted to monetary losses totaling greater than $6.9 billion. In response to the FBI, enterprise electronic mail and electronic mail account compromises left the biggest toll of almost $2.4 billion.
After electronic mail compromises, the FBI stories these crimes financially impacted victims hardest:
- Funding scams/fraud: $1.4 billion
- Confidence fraud/romance scams: $956 million
- Private information breaches: $517 million
- Actual property/rental schemes: $350 million
- Tech assist scams: $347 million
The commonest web crime and the monetary losses diversified by state. In Utah, for instance, non-payment/non-delivery crimes – that means items or providers are shipped however by no means paid for, or fee is distributed however the items or providers are by no means acquired – impacted essentially the most victims. Victims misplaced essentially the most cash, greater than $29.7 million – to enterprise electronic mail or account electronic mail includes, in accordance with the FBI report.
A state-by-state breakdown of web crimes reported in 2021 might be discovered right here.
In response to the FBI, these residing in California had been hit hardest by web crimes, with sufferer losses totaling greater than $1.2 billion. That’s over twice the loss reported by Texas victims, which was $606 million, in accordance with the FBI.
Listed below are the highest 10 states with the very best sufferer losses:
- California: $1.2 billion
- Texas: $606 million
- New York: $560 million
- Florida: $528 million
- Pennsylvania: $207 million
- New Jersey: $203 million
- Illinois: $184 million
- Michigan: $181 million
- Virginia: $172 million
- Washington: $157 million
Most of those states additionally had the very best variety of victims. California, once more, topped out the listing, reporting greater than 67,000 web crime victims in 2021. The second-highest state was Texas with over 41,000 victims.
The ten states with essentially the most victims are:
- California: 67,095
- Texas: 41,148
- New York: 29,065
- Illinois: 17,999
- Nevada: 17,706
- Ohio: 17,510
- Pennsylvania: 17,262
- Florida: 15,855
- Washington: 13,903
- New Jersey: 12,817
Map: State-by-state breakdown of web crime victims, 2021
The total FBI report might be discovered right here.