Did The FBI on IC3.gov Ignore Your Crime Victims’ Rights?
U.S. Crime Victims’ Rights & Reporting To The FBI on IC3.gov
Did You Receive Information From The FBI?
A SCARS Advocacy Project
All Scam Victims – Please Note:
Did you report your scam to the FBI? Via IC3.gov?
More importantly, did you receive ANY of these notifications from them after reporting your crime?
Were you …
- Notified that you have been the victim of a federal crime?
- Informed of the place where you may receive medical (mental healthcare) and social services?
- Informed of public and private programs available for counseling, treatment, and other support services?
- Receive reasonable protection from a suspected offender and persons acting in concert with or at the behest of the suspected offender?
- Informed or know the status of the investigation of the crime, to the extent it is appropriate and it will not interfere with the investigation?
These are ALL RIGHTS of crime victims under U.S. law! Under the Victims’ Rights and Restitution Act (VRRA), 34 U.S.C. § 20141, victims are entitled to these rights.
If you did not receive these things then your rights may have been violated by the FBI.
Our goal is to work with the FBI’s Ombudsman and FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) – however, to change this current dereliction of their duty to crime victims we need to compile victims that did not receive these services.
Please fill in the form below so that we can show the FBI’s Victims’ Ombudsman & Inspector General that the FBI may have violated the rights of crime victims they are sworn to protect and support. This information will not be provided to any third-parties except the FBI’s Victims’ Ombudsman & Inspector General as confirmation of victims whose rights were irnored.
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Resources
For example, these are all things that should have been offered and shared with you!
To learn more about your rights as a victim of a crime in the United States:
I have reported everything to the IC3 and FTC. I see three got at least three different reports which were very detailed for me. I have yet to hear back from the FBI or anyone to date…
Be sure to add yourself to our complaint to the FBI’s Victims’ Ombudsman and their Inspector General.
I did not receive anything from IC3
Thank you
Your latest article about whether the FBI violated your rights after being scammed has no active link to be able to report my experience, or should I say lack of experience with IC3. I have reported twice on IC3 and have lost thousands of dollars to one particular woman who has scammed me and they have not even ever so much as followed up with a phone call or an email reply that they received and will process my complaint. Despite very detailed information about my scammer and about my experiences they have never contacted me in any shape or form. I reported in 2018 and again in 2020 with nothing as a reply. I have very little faith that our government is interested in trying to help scam victims regardless of the fact that a good deal of money is leaving the country because of it. I think they are as complicit as the scammers and may be involved with scammers themselves I had some very good information that could’ve led FBI to discover who I dealt with and could probably have lead to an arrest of an entire scam ring, but they won’t even bother to return my complaint or email me or phone me. And I’m not a nutcase, though I have lost thousands and thousands of dollars to this one woman. I am really sick of lipservice. Even this site does little to help, although some people may benefit from it. You can read about resources as a scam victim all day long on the site but it doesn’t really do much to help. Law-enforcement is the only real solution and they’re not doing any! How many American people have been brought to justice as American scammers, because there are many and Romance scams are abundant with American scammers not just Nigerian. And they work sometimes in large scam rings in this country as well as Nigeria and other countries as you know. With the information I had the FBI could’ve easily traced my scammer but has done absolutely zero to help me. I’m 68, I have been a tax paying citizen here in the USA all my life and I feel like they are totally worthless. They pursue what they want to and how it suits them, not how it suits the victims. It has not changed, regardless of whether it was under Trump or or Obama or Biden.
I will also say that the reporting platform on IC3 is not only cumbersome but kind of ridiculous, they want you to put down everything you know about the scammer on the initial complaint and that’s impossible when you have a couple of years experience with a scammer and you have been through countless communications and transactions with that person. Their website doesn’t let you save your complaint or even print it out. And they don’t even follow up with an email to confirm that they received your complaint. Despite your suggestions of going to local police first I will not because local place in this town are very gossipy because I live in a small town and I’m not about to let them know my personal life because they’re all too close to me, I know many of the police here personally and I do not want them knowing my business, it would be all over town in a day or two.
Yes, it does not contain links to the FBI. The purpose is to collect information to be presented to the FBI Ombudsman and Inspector General as a package by SCARS Directors.
Much of your commentary is your anger speaking, some are urban legends, not facts. Though we agree that the reporting process with the IC3 is far from great. Anyscam.com and the FTC are far better.
As far as reporting to local police – you always have the option of reporting to your State Police – but reporting is not an option (as you will see in other articles).