Between 2017 and 2022, the number of police-reported online fraud cases in Canada increased notably. During the last measured year, nearly 37,000 incidents of internet fraud were reported to the authorities. This represents a 175 percent increase from 2017 when the reported online fraud cases were 13,426.
Number of police-reported online fraud incidents in Canada from 2017 to 2022
"A criminal incident may be comprised of multiple violations of the law. For the analysis of cyber-related violations, one distinct violation within the incident was identified as the 'cybercrime violation'. The cybercrime violation represents the specific criminal violation within an incident in which a computer or the internet was the target of the crime, or the instrument used to commit the crime. For the majority of incidents, the cybercrime violation and the most serious violation were the same."
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Statistics Canada, 2017 to 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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