Cybercrime is an issue experienced worldwide; attackers can attack technological systems anywhere in the world with no regard to national boundaries. Nations can be broken down into four distinct categories based on cyber-crime activity: low cyber-crime countries, non-serious cyber-crime countries, advance fee fraud countries, and phishing cam countries. The top five nations on the cyber-crime index are the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, and India. The United States suffers sixty percent of phishing attacks worldwide. In this type of attack the individual or more often businesses suffer from financial loss, usually around 20K in loss. In other countries like Nigeria for example there are other forms of attacks which can even lead to violence. This form of attack is called the advanced fee fraud attack where the fraudster contacts the victim via a spam email with a proposal of something the victim may want but must send an “advance fee” before they receive the “reward”. These attacks can also include violence too when victims are lured to the home countries of the fraudster and if successful, the victim can then be held for ransom for profit. The United States also experiences these kinds of attacks but not as frequently in comparison for Nigeria. The degree of internet connectivity a nation routinely experiences is one of the most impactful factors in the increase of the number of cyber-crime types in that nation including fraud, malware, spam, and digital piracy. Research does not describe distinct difference between nations, only variation between the variables. Spam and digital piracy are said to be more likely to take place in wealthier countries where the targets make for better reward, this means that these kinds of attacks would more likely happen in countries like the United States than a third world country.