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Net fraud is tangled web for victims, police
As you read this, hundreds of crooks are trolling the Internet for victims. Their get-rich-quick schemes clog e-mail inboxes and online bulletin boards.
Odds are they won't get caught.
An FBI-led Internet fraud task force received 49,711 complaints last year. Of those, 93 ended in an arrest.
Local police see most Internet fraud as outside their jurisdiction; federal authorities see most of it as too small to pursue. In the wide-open world between, online scammers are making fortunes -- and victims are losing more than $500 million a year.
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