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Scam statistics

Reported figures come from the agencies that collect complaints. Survey-based global figures are estimates and are labelled as such.

FBI IC3

The IC3 rows overlap. Subtype rows (marked "part of") sit inside another row, the age 60 and over row covers complaints that also appear in the crime-type rows, and the cryptocurrency and AI rows describe complaints counted in the crime types too. The total is the whole figure, not a sum of the rows beneath it. Never add these rows together.

Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$20.88BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Complaints to the FBI IC3 in 20251,008,597US, 2025, FBI IC3
Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 by people aged 60 and over (part of Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$7.75BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Investment fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$8.65BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Business email compromise losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$3.05BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Tech and customer support scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$2.13BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Confidence and romance scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$929.3MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Government impersonation losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$797.9MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Non-payment and non-delivery losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$503.4MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Employment scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$362.9MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Real estate fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$275.1MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Phishing and spoofing losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$215.8MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Phishing and spoofing complaints to the FBI IC3 in 2025, the most reported crime type191,561US, 2025, FBI IC3
Lottery, sweepstakes, and inheritance losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$194.1MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Advance fee losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$155.9MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Extortion losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$122.5MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Overpayment losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$22.9MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Malware losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$19.4MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
SIM swap losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$17.4MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Charity fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025$7.9MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Losses involving cryptocurrency reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (overlaps other categories, never summed)$11.37BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Losses in FBI IC3 complaints mentioning AI in 2025 (overlaps other categories, never summed)$893.3MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Crypto investment fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (part of Investment fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$7.23BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Crypto ATM and kiosk fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (part of Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$389MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Recovery scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025, which may include losses from the earlier scam (part of Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$1.4BUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Account takeover losses through fake bank support reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (part of Tech and customer support scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$359.7MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Gold courier scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (part of Losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$311.8MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Investment club scam losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (part of Investment fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 in 2025)$160MUS, 2025, FBI IC3
Sextortion submissions to the FBI IC3 in 2025 (more than this many)75,000US, 2025, FBI IC3

FTC

Fraud losses reported to the FTC in 2025$15.9BUS, 2025, FTC
Investment scam losses reported to the FTC in 2025$7.9BUS, 2025, FTC
Imposter scam losses reported to the FTC in 2025 (more than this amount)$3.5BUS, 2025, FTC
Business impersonator losses reported to the FTC in 2025 (nearly this amount)$1BUS, 2025, FTC
Government impersonator losses reported to the FTC in 2025 (about this amount)$920MUS, 2025, FTC
Job and employment agency scam losses reported to the FTC in 2024$501MUS, 2024, FTC

UK Finance

Authorised push payment fraud losses in the UK in 2025£576.4MGB, 2025, UK Finance
Investment scam losses in the UK in 2025 (authorised push payment)£221.5MGB, 2025, UK Finance
Romance scam losses in the UK in 2025 (authorised push payment)£39.2MGB, 2025, UK Finance

ACCC

Scam losses reported in Australia in 2025A$2.18BAU, 2025, ACCC
Investment scam losses reported in Australia in 2025A$837.7MAU, 2025, ACCC
Payment redirection scam losses reported in Australia in 2025A$166.8MAU, 2025, ACCC
Romance scam losses reported in Australia in 2025A$139.9MAU, 2025, ACCC
Phishing losses reported in Australia in 2025A$97.6MAU, 2025, ACCC
Remote access scam losses reported in Australia in 2025A$69.9MAU, 2025, ACCC

GASA

Scam losses across 42 countries, estimated from a survey of 46,000 individuals$442BGlobal, 2025, GASA

UNODC

Annual profits of industrial-scale scam centres in East and Southeast Asia, estimated at just under this amount$40BEast and Southeast Asia, 2025, UNODC

BBB

Scam reports published by BBB Scam Tracker in 2025, US and Canada (more than this many)146,000US and Canada, 2025, BBB

APWG

Phishing attacks observed by APWG in Q1 2026971,181Global, 2026, APWG