Americans Lost Hundreds of Millions to Online Scams in 2014
The most frequently reported crimes are broken down in the chart below, which also illustrates how different scams are targeted at different demographic groups. While confidence / romance scams, in which the criminal establishes an online relationship with his or her victim and later asks for money, are mostly targeted at middle-aged women, men are more likely to fall for too-good-to-be-true car listings and become victims of auto fraud.
For more information on the different kinds of online scams visit the IC3's website or check out its latest annual report on Internet crime [PDF].

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This graphic charts the financial losses suffered by victims of Internet crimes in the United States in 2014.