Cybercrime Index:
Cybercrime Reporting Organizations
International, Canada, Australia, European Union, India, Switzerland, United Kindgom, United States
International
Cyber Law Enforcement.org: This organization has four goals: (1) To unite police officers worldwide and educate them on cybercrime, cyberlaw, investigative techniques and how they interact. (2) To provide investigative assistance to police departments when requested. (3) To provide online help and education for victims of cyberstalking, cyberharassment, pedophile, hacking, and virus attacks as well as access to support groups and online counselling. (4) To standardize relations and communications between police departments, Internet Service Providers , Legal system contacts and victim advocacy groups worldwide.
Nigeria - The 419 Coalition Website: Information about the "Nigeria" - and similar - scams, how to recognize them and report them
Virtual Global Taskforce: The VGT is made up of law enforcement agencies from around the world working together to fight child abuse online. The aim of the VGT is to build an effective, international partnership of law enforcement agencies that helps to protect children from online child abuse. The objectives of the VGT are: To make the Internet a safer place; To identify, locate and help children at risk; To hold perpetrators appropriately to account.
WiredPatrol: WiredPatrol is one of the largest international internet safety and reporting organizations. They have a section for reporting a variety of Internet-related offenses, including cyberstalking, child pornography and general emergencies,
Australia
Australian High Tech Crime Centre: A national centre to coordinate the efforts of Australian law enforcement in combating serious crime involving complex technology.
Canada
Cybertip.ca: Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. It is a centralized web portal for receiving and addressing reports from the public regarding child pornography, luring, child sex tourism, and children who are exploited through prostitution. Cybertip.ca also provides the public with information, referrals and other resources to help Canadians keep their children safe while on the Internet.
RCMP Fraud Prevention Page: Hints, tips and background information on the different kinds of computer crimes and how they can be prevented, or reported in Canada.
Reporting Economic Online Crime (RECOL): Reporting Economic Crime Online (RECOL) is an initiative that involves an integrated partnership between International, Federal and Provincial Law Enforcement agencies, as well as, with regulators and private commercial organizations that have a legitimate investigative interest in receiving a copy of complaints of economic crime. Through this site you can report fraud and other forms of online crime to Canadian and other agencies.
European Union
INHOPE: INHOPE exists to facilitate co-operation between European Internet Hotline providers. Their mission is to eliminate child pornography from the Internet and protect young people from harmful and illegal uses of the Internet.
Safer Internet (InSafe): The Safer Internet Action Plan promoting safety on the Internet is the official European Union’s response to tackling the controversial issue of illegal, harmful and racist content on the Internet.
India
Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling: The mission of the CCVC is to: Help you to understand the nature of the crime that has been committed against you; help you take action against the offender; to provide counseling for the trauma you have gone through, and to help you to understand the present legal scenario and to connect you with the appropriate police service, if needed.
Switzerland
Cybercrime Coordination Unit: The Swiss Coordination Unit for Cybercrime Control (CYCOS) is the central office where persons can report suspect Internet subject matter including: hardcore pornography (sexual acts with children, animals, human excrement or acts of violence); depiction of violence; extremism; racism; unlawful entry into IT systems; spreading of computer viruses; destruction of data; credit card misuse; violation of copyrights; illegal arms trade.
United Kindgom
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre: The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre works across the UK and maximizes international links to tackle child sex abuse wherever and whenever it happens. Part of their strategy for achieving this is to provide internet safety advice for parents and caregivers, and delivering a virtual police station for reporting abuse on the internet.
Internet Watch: A United Kingdom over watch and reporting organization. While their priority is child pornography, they will accept a variety of reports.
United States
How to Report Internet-related Crime: A section of the US Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Division, this page provides information on how -- and to who -- you should report a wide variety of internet crimes, including child pornography, harassment, fraud, hacking and much more.
Identity Theft and Fraud: The US Department of Justice's Identity Theft information page, with background data, contacts for reporting identity theft and fraud, along with suggestions on how not to become a victim.
Internet Crime Complaint Center: The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3 provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (USA): The IFCC is a cooperative project of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center. Victims of fraud can use this site to report the details of their cases, while law enforcement agencies can use the IFCC as a central depository of fraud case information, statistics and patterns.
Internet Fraud Watch: The Internet Fraud Watch provides tips, articles, bulletins and other information that you can use to avoid fraud, protect your privacy, and navigate the Net safely and enjoyably. You can also report a possible fraud.
National Cyber Security Alliance: The NCSA’s mission is to empower and support digital citizens to use the Internet securely and safely, protecting themselves and the cyber infrastructure. NCSA, a 501 c (3) founded in 2001, is a public private partnership, working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), corporate sponsors (ADP, AT&T, Cisco, EMC, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, SAIC, Symantec), and nonprofit collaborators to promote cyber security awareness for home users, small and medium size businesses, and primary and secondary education.
Network Abuse Clearinghouse: The Network Abuse Clearinghouse is intended to help the Internet community to report and control network abuse and abusive users. Since the best place to report abusive activity varies from one system to another, the NAC is trying to keep a master database of reporting addresses for users throughout the net to use. You can also find resources and help for many kinds of internet abuse situations on their site.
ObscenityCrimes.Org: For reporting child pornography or exploitation of children.
Operation Blue Ridge Thunder: The purpose of this online, police-based organization is to safeguard children from Internet crime. It is comprised of cooperative law enforcement agencies, including the international, federal, regional, state and local levels. Information on parental safeguards, safe surfing and crime reporting is provided.
Project Safe Childhood: Project Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children. This US government site include information on online sexual exploitation of children, provides the latest news on government efforts to curtail or prosecute this criminal act, provides links to other organizations working towards the protection of children online, and provides publications from these organizations.
US State Department - Overseas CItizen Services - International Financial Scams: This page offers links to reporting and information sites for victims of financial scams, including: dating scams, frauds involving lottery winnings, work permits, inheritance schemes, and money laundering.
