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2008 Trumps 2007 as Worst Year for Internet Crime

Ah, yes. It was about this time last year when we were looking at an FBI report indicating that 2007 was the worst year on record for Internet fraud. Crime was up 25-percent from 2006, and we sure thought it couldn't get any worse. Sadly, it sure did -- 33-percent worse, to be specific. Yes, the 2008 report has been released by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3. The report ...