Statistics from ecops.be

Monday

The Belgian newspaper "Het belang van Limburg" reports on the statistics from www.ecops.be , the website of the Belgian Federal Computer Crime Unit.

This portal has gone online on the 23rd January of 2007 and has been running for over a year now. It's main purpose is an electronic form to report computercrimes and internet fraud.

During it's first year, 12.000 complaints were registrered. The registrered complaints were

50% was spam / unwanted emails (lottery, medicine, watches,...)
20% about electronic transaction per sms (deceiving advertising, forced sales,...)
17% about electronic transactions per internet (deceiving offers, missing delivery, ...)
10% about sales on auction sites (mostly missing deliveries)

Offenders first get a warning. If there are repeated accounts, a settlement is offered. In the worst cases, the dossier goes to court. About this, no statistics are available.