Denver (KDVR) – The FBI found that the fraudsters stole hundreds of millions of dollars from COLORADANS in 2024, and took some specified fraud operations most of the money.
The latest report issued by the Internet Crime Complaints Center of the FBI was discovered that Colorado was one of the best states in the country with the most fraud of the individual. In 2024, this increased to a loss of 243,517,403 dollars from Colorado victims – about $ 56 million since 2023.
There are many common frauds that have been reported in Colorado, but the three largest fraud in the state includes investment fraud, which received a total of $ 90 million, and Business email, which lasted 48 million dollars, and violated personal data that lasted 23 million dollars.
Although this value that took the utmost cash value, the report found that the most common fraud that made several thousand reports in Colorado included blackmail, hunting/deception and violating personal data.
Not only Colorado.
Cash losses were reported in fraud throughout the country
While Colorado was the seventh of the upper state of the losses that were reported due to fraud, it is increasing throughout the country.
The report said that the complaints center received more than 800,000 complaints in the country from the suspected Internet crimes, as it reported losses of $ 16.6 billion – an increase of 33 % over 2023.
At the national level, the most commonly reported fraud included frequently reported, deception, blackmail and personal databases. Meanwhile, the most reported losses included investment fraud, which specifically involves the cryptocurrency, which total more than $ 6.5 billion of losses.
During all fraud, the FBI said that people who are 60 years old or older have been incomplete more than $ 5 billion, and with the largest number of complaints.
The FBI said this is just reported losses, and there will be more victims. If you think you may be a victim of a crime that supports the Internet, file a complaint in IC3.gov.