Internet Crime Cost Americans $1.3 Billion in 2016
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), established in 2000 to receive complaints of Internet crime, released its annual report, revealing the organization received an average of 800 complaints a day and that Americans lost $1.33 billion in 2016.
Since IC3 was formed in 2000, it has received a total of 3,762,348 complaints, according to the report, averaging 280,000 each year. Since 2010 the victim losses have remained relatively steady at around $1 billion per year, increasing slightly year-over-year from 2014 through 2016 when the losses totaled $1.33 billion.