Rising trend

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.