Rising trend
February 22, 2006
Since the creation of the CyberTipline in March 1998, the number of
reports of Internet crimes against children has continued to increase
in most categories.Online enticement of a child:
1998 — 707
1999 — 1,139
2000 — 1,458
2001 — 1,540
2002 — 2,782
2003 — 2,123
2004 — 2,605
Unsolicited obscene material sent to a child (category introduced 2002):
2002 — 349
2003 — 857
2004 — 533
Misleading domain names (category introduced 2004):
2004 — 487
Source: CyberTipline's Annual Report Totals by Incident Type.
