Alaskans reported online fraud at the second highest rate per capita in the nation last year, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation complaints.
Alaskans lost nearly double the amount of money to internet scams last year compared to 2022, according to crime reports to federal authorities. The increase outpaces the national jump in money lost to cybercrime as a rising tide of online fraud affects the Last Frontier.released this week. According to the report, overall U.S. losses reported last year to the bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center rose by about 21 percent, from $10.3 billion in 2022 to $12.
“We actually believe that the numbers are underreported,” Smith said. “We think that there are individuals who don’t report these things.” According to the FBI’s Alaska data, about an eighth – nearly 300 – of the state’s 2,338 online-fraud victims last year were over the age of 60. But they accounted for over $8.7 million in losses, more than a quarter of Alaskans’ total.
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