WASHINGTON — Women may make less than men on average, but they give less to cybercrooks, too, according to a new report.
Male complainants lost $1.67 to every $1 lost by female complainants reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center last year, according to the 2007 Internet Crime Report issued by the organization last week.
The center said it received a total of 206,884 complaints of crimes perpetrated online in 2007 and that some 90,000 were referred to law enforcement, about 72,000 of which involved monetary loss. The most complaints received since it began the reports in 2001 totaled 231,493 in 2005.
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