Additional highlights from the report (from IC3):

• Most victims filing complaints were from the U.S., male, between 40 and 59 years old, and residents of California, Florida, Texas, or New York. Most international complainants were from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, or India.
• In cases where perpetrator information was available, nearly 75 percent were men and more than half resided in California, Florida, New York, Texas, the District of Columbia, or Washington state. The highest numbers of perpetrators outside this country were from the United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Canada.
• After non-delivery of payment/merchandise, scams impersonating the FBI, and identity theft, rounding out the top 10 crime types were: computer crimes, miscellaneous fraud, advance fee fraud, spam, auction fraud, credit card fraud, and overpayment fraud.

The report also contained information on some of the alerts sent out by the IC3 during 2010 in response to new scams or to an increase in established scams, including those involving:

• Telephone calls claiming victims are delinquent on payday loans. More
• Online apartment and house rental and real estate scams used to swindle consumers out of thousands of dollars. More
• Denial-of-service attacks on cell phones and landlines used as a ruse to access victims’ bank accounts. More
• Fake e-mails seeking donations to disaster relief efforts after last year’s earthquake in Haiti. More