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Figures drawn from named official reports, with sources and years. Most fraud is under-reported, so these are a floor, not a ceiling.
Headline figures on the scale of scams and fraud worldwide, drawn from official agency reports.
Reported scam and fraud losses in the United States, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and FBI IC3 annual reports.
Reported fraud losses and case volumes in the United Kingdom, drawn from UK Finance and Action Fraud annual reports.
Reported scam losses in Australia, drawn from the ACCC National Anti-Scam Centre's Targeting Scams annual report.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for romance and confidence scams, drawn from FBI IC3 and FTC official reports.
Reported losses to fraudulent investment schemes and cryptocurrency scams, from FBI IC3, FTC, and ACCC official reports.
Reported fraud losses affecting adults aged 60 and over in the United States, drawn from FBI IC3 annual reports and FTC data.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for business email compromise fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 annual reports.
Phishing complaint volumes and attack trends from FBI IC3 and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) official reports.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for online shopping and non-delivery fraud, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and Action Fraud data.
CONDUSEF received 8,093 complaints over unrecognised internet charges in 2025, resolving 49.3% in the consumer's favour, while card chargebacks totalled 3,100 million pesos.
INCIBE handled 122.223 cybersecurity incidents in Spain in 2025, 26% more than in 2024, and 45.445 of them — around four in ten — were online fraud.
Fraudehelpdesk logged 101.734 reports in 2025, up more than 60% on 2024, with € 68.492.848 in reported losses across 15.116 people who lost money.
Swedish police recorded 232 862 fraud offences in 2025, while 6.6 per cent of adults told Brå's national survey they had been hit by sales fraud during 2024.
38 per cent of Brazilians said they had faced a scam or an attempted scam by March 2025, up from 33 per cent in September 2024, according to FEBRABAN's Radar Febraban survey.
Hong Kong police recorded 43 212 deception cases in 2025 with monetary losses of about $8.1 billion, the first annual fall after consecutive rises since 2019.
The FBI's IC3 received more than 75,000 sextortion submissions in 2025, while NCMEC logged over 50,000 financially motivated sextortion reports — an average of 137 a day.
US victims filed 3,611 ransomware complaints with the FBI's IC3 in 2025, reporting $32,320,105 in losses — a total the FBI itself describes as artificially low.
The FBI's IC3 logged 191,561 phishing and spoofing complaints in 2025 — the category that toll and delivery texts fall into — with $215,843,126 in reported losses.
Canadians reported more than $704 million in fraud losses to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in 2025, though the CAFC estimates only 5–10% of incidents are ever reported.
Singapore recorded 37,308 scam cases and about $913.1 million in losses in 2025, down 17.9% on the previous year, according to the Singapore Police Force.
Ireland's payment fraud rose sharply in 2024, with investment fraud now the highest-grossing crime type, according to the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland and Central Bank of Ireland data.
New Zealand's CERT NZ recorded approximately NZD $25.7 million in direct cybercrime losses in 2024 — the highest annual total since records began in 2017, and still the latest full-year figure.
India's I4C recorded approximately INR 11,333 crore in cyber fraud losses in the first nine months of 2024 — and about 85% of national portal complaints involve online financial fraud.
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded 131,391 domestic cybercrime cases in 2024, with cyber attacks causing an estimated EUR 178.6 billion in economic damage.
French authorities estimate victims lose at least EUR 500 million per year to financial fraud, while Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr received over 420,000 cyber-assistance requests in 2024.
Nigeria's EFCC secured a record 4,111 convictions and recovered NGN 364.6 billion in 2024, its strongest published year of enforcement against financial crime.
South Africa's SABRIC recorded a 86% surge in digital banking fraud incidents in 2024, with associated losses reaching ZAR 1.888 billion even as overall banking-sector fraud losses fell.
The Philippines' CICC received 10,004 cybercrime complaints in 2024 — more than triple the prior year — with reported victim losses of nearly PHP 198 million.
Cryptocurrency-related fraud losses reported to the FBI IC3 reached $11.366 billion across 181,565 complaints in 2025, a 22% increase in losses over 2024.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for pig-butchering (sha zhu pan) crypto investment fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 and DOJ sources.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for imposter and government-impersonation scams, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 official reports.
The FBI IC3 recorded $362,934,762 in employment fraud losses across 24,688 complaints in 2025, while FTC-reported job scam losses reached $501 million in 2024.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for tech-support fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 and FTC Consumer Sentinel official reports.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for scams using gift cards as the payment method, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel official reports.
Reported incidents and financial losses from identity theft, drawn from FTC IdentityTheft.gov reports and Javelin Strategy annual studies.
Reported losses and complaint volumes for investment fraud — including fake trading platforms, Ponzi schemes, and advance-fee investment fraud — drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 official reports.
How reported fraud losses and report rates vary across age groups, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 data.
How reported fraud losses break down by payment method — bank transfer, cryptocurrency, gift card, and others — based on FTC and FBI IC3 data.
How scammers reach victims — by phone, email, text message, or social media — and how reported losses differ by contact channel.
The multi-year trend in reported consumer fraud losses in the United States, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel Network annual reports.
Reported scam losses linked to social media as the point of first contact, and how that figure has grown since 2020.
Reported fraud losses where victims paid using cryptocurrency, drawing on FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 data for 2024.
How gift cards are used as a fraud payment method, which scam types rely on them most, and why the FTC flags them as a persistent risk.
Reported fraud losses where victims paid via bank transfer, wire transfer, or ACH — consistently among the highest-loss payment categories.
How reported losses to impersonation scams — government, business, and family imposters — have grown in the United States since 2020.
Reported financial losses to romance scams and confidence fraud, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and FBI IC3 annual data.
Reported fraud losses for victims aged 60 and over, drawn from FTC and FBI IC3 annual reports and the FTC's Protecting Older Consumers series.
Verified statistics on fraud complaints and losses where artificial intelligence tools were identified as a factor, based on FBI IC3 data.
Verified figures on authorised push payment (APP) fraud — where victims are tricked into sending money themselves — drawn from the UK Finance Annual Fraud Report 2025 (2024 data).
Verified statistics on payment-card fraud losses — unauthorised use of debit and credit card details — from the UK Finance Annual Fraud Report 2025 (2024 data).
Verified figures on internet crime reported to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2024 — total losses, complaint volume, and the disproportionate impact on older adults.