against our nation is the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which aids citizens by bringing pervasive cyber crimes and scams to the attention of law enforcement. The 2015 Internet Crime Report highlights the IC3’s efforts over the past year, specifically focusing on their efforts regarding Business Email Compromise (BEC) WHAT IS INTERNET FRAUD?“The term ‘Internet fraud’ refers generally to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more components of the Internet - such as chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites - to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to other connected with the scheme.” made between three types of nancial fraud: nancial statement fraud, nancial scams, and fraudulent nancial mis-selling. What emerges is a picture of nancial fraud as a complex