Internet crimes are up in Indiana as older Hoosiers continue to be particularly victimized by scammers using a variety of increasingly sophisticated tools, a new FBI report shows.

Hoosiers filed 23,659 internet crime complaints in 2024, ranking the state 8th in reports across the U.S., including Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories. Indiana was also No. 3 for complaints per 100,000 citizens, trailing only Alaska and Washington, D.C., at 341.7 complaints per 100,000 citizens , according to an annual report from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center .

Indiana’s 2024 complaint total is a new high. It is a 113% increase over the 11,097 complaints filed in 2023 . The last time the state saw this large of an annual increase was from 2018 to 2019, when complaints increased 108% from

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