Report Internet Fraud

Email boxes are filling up with more offers for business opportunities than any other kind of unsolicited commercial email.  That's a problem, according to the Federal Trade Commission, because many of these offers are scams.

In response to requests from consumers, the FTC asked email users to forward their unsolicited commercial email to the agency for an inside look at the bulk email business.  FTC staff found that more often than not, bulk email offers appeared to be fraudulent, and if pursued, could have ripped-off unsuspecting consumers to the tune of billions of dollars.  Read the IC3's Internet Crime Prevention Tips website page here.

The FTC has identified a number of scams that are most likely to arrive in consumers email boxes. Visit the IC3's Internet Crime Schemes website page for more information.  Some of the more common internet scams are:

Internet fraud should be reported to the Internet Crime Compliant Center.