The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) received a total of 47,873 reports in 2016-17, 6,532 more than in the previous year. As revealed in the Connect Discover Understand Respond 2016-17 Annual Report from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC), scams and online fraud were the highest reported incidents to ACORN, accounting for 51 percent of the 47,873 total.

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