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All families Investment and crypto fraud Relationship and trust Government and authority impersonation Brand and service impersonation Recovery and re-victimisation Shopping and marketplace Prize, fee, and payment tricks Jobs and income Business payment fraud (BEC) Workforce and access social engineering Extortion and threats All years 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2020 2019 2015 Any loss Under $1M $1M to $100M Over $100M Undisclosed, seized, or estimated
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Scam cases matching the filters, newest first Date Case Country Status Figure 2026-02 Daren Li sentenced over $73 million crypto scam laundering, 2026 US sentenced $73.6M stolen 2025-12 Operation Chakra: CBI and FBI raid a Noida scam call centre, 2025 IN alleged $48.7M estimate 2025-11 US Scam Center Strike Force targets Southeast Asian scam centres, 2025 US charged $401.7M seized 2025-10 Prince Group chairman Chen Zhi charged over Cambodian scam compounds, 2025 US charged $15B seized 2025-09 Scattered Spider: Thalha Jubair charged in New Jersey, 2025 US charged $115M ransom 2025-08 Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens used to take Salesforce data, 2025 US disclosed Undisclosed 2025-07 Christina Chapman's laptop farm for North Korean IT workers, 2025 US sentenced $17M impact 2025-06 Google Salesforce instance hit by UNC6040 vishing campaign, 2025 US disclosed Undisclosed 2025-05 Coinbase support staff bribed to leak customer data, 2025 US disclosed $180M estimate 2025-05 FBI warns of AI voice messages impersonating senior US officials, 2025 US disclosed Undisclosed 2025-04 Co-op and Harrods cyber attacks, 2025 GB disclosed £80M impact 2025-04 Marks & Spencer cyber attack via third-party impersonation, 2025 GB disclosed £300M estimate 2025-02 Bybit loses about $1.5 billion to North Korea's TraderTraitor, 2025 Location not reported disclosed $1.5B stolen 2024-10 Hong Kong police break a deepfake romance scam syndicate, 2024 HK alleged HK$360M estimate 2024-09 Ogoshi brothers sentenced for sextortion of teenage boys, 2024 US sentenced Undisclosed 2024-08 Transport for London hacked after a help desk password reset, 2024 GB sentenced £29M impact 2024-08 Heartland Tri-State Bank CEO sentenced after pig butchering loss, 2024 US sentenced $47.1M stolen 2024-07 Ferrari executive stops a deepfake CEO voice call, 2024 Unconfirmed by a primary source IT attempted Undisclosed 2024-07 KnowBe4 catches a North Korean fake IT worker it had hired, 2024 US disclosed Undisclosed 2024-05 Storm-1811 email bombing and fake IT support calls, 2024 US disclosed Undisclosed 2024-05 WPP CEO impersonated with a voice clone on Teams, 2024 Unconfirmed by a primary source GB attempted Undisclosed 2024-01 SIM swap ring charged over $400 million crypto theft tied by press to FTX, 2024 US charged $400M stolen 2024-01 Arup Hong Kong deepfake CFO video call fraud, 2024 Unconfirmed by a primary source HK disclosed HK$200M stolen 2023-09 Caesars loyalty database taken after IT vendor social engineering, 2023 US disclosed Undisclosed 2023-09 MGM Resorts cyberattack after a reported help desk call, 2023 US disclosed $100M impact 2023-08 Retool breached through SMS phishing and a follow-up call, 2023 US disclosed Undisclosed 2022-11 Inferno Drainer crypto wallet drainer-as-a-service, 2022 to 2023 Unconfirmed by a primary source Location not reported alleged $80M estimate 2022-09 Uber contractor account breached through repeated MFA prompts, 2022 US disclosed Undisclosed 2022-08 Twilio employees hit by SMS phishing (0ktapus), 2022 US disclosed Undisclosed 2022-05 Cisco employee targeted by vishing and MFA fatigue, 2022 US disclosed Undisclosed 2020-11 Ahmedabad call centres' IRS and USCIS impersonation: owner sentenced, 2020 US sentenced $25M estimate 2020-07 Twitter account takeover via fake IT help desk calls, 2020 US sentenced $118,000 stolen 2019-12 Evaldas Rimasauskas sentenced for fake invoice fraud on Google and Facebook, 2019 US sentenced $122M stolen 2019-08 Toyota Boshoku European subsidiary hit by payment fraud, 2019 JP disclosed ¥4B estimate 2015-06 Ubiquiti Networks loses $46.7 million to employee impersonation fraud, 2015 US disclosed $46.7M stolen
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