{"id":3182,"date":"2011-01-25T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:17:06","slug":"want-to-report-an-internet-scam-or-online-crime-go-ic3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Want to report an internet scam or online crime? Go IC3!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to report on a internet scam or some other online crime? Check out IC3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IC3<\/a>, AKA the Internet Crime Complaint Center<\/a>, is a partnership between some other Federal alphabet soup agencies – the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).<\/p>\n

Technically it should be IC3 = SUM (FBI + NW3C + BJA), but that’s just murder on a business card.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, IC3 was set up to “receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime” and is pretty easy to use. You click through a multiple-choice questionnaire on the site and fill in the blanks as you go along. It takes about two minutes for a typical form.<\/p>\n

Maybe if enough people use this system, some of those “I give you this sum $3, 750,000.00 Million Dollars from the bank in south America” kind of emails will go away.<\/p>\n

Right. Here’s the official link to the report-a-scam-and-crime website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to report on a internet scam or some other online crime? Check out IC3. IC3, AKA the Internet Crime Complaint Center, is a partnership between some other Federal alphabet soup agencies – the Federal Bureau of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t