Scam & Fraud Statistics
Figures drawn from named official reports, with sources and years. Most fraud is under-reported, so these are a floor, not a ceiling.
Global Scam & Fraud Statistics
Headline figures on the scale of scams and fraud worldwide, drawn from official agency reports.
US Scam & Fraud Statistics
Reported scam and fraud losses in the United States, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and FBI IC3 annual reports.
UK Scam & Fraud Statistics
Reported fraud losses and case volumes in the United Kingdom, drawn from UK Finance and Action Fraud annual reports.
Australia Scam Statistics
Reported scam losses in Australia, drawn from the ACCC National Anti-Scam Centre's Targeting Scams annual report.
Romance Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for romance and confidence scams, drawn from FBI IC3 and FTC official reports.
Investment & Crypto Scam Statistics
Reported losses to fraudulent investment schemes and cryptocurrency scams, from FBI IC3, FTC, and ACCC official reports.
Elder Fraud Statistics
Reported fraud losses affecting adults aged 60 and over in the United States, drawn from FBI IC3 annual reports and FTC data.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for business email compromise fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 annual reports.
Phishing Statistics
Phishing complaint volumes and attack trends from FBI IC3 and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) official reports.
Online Shopping Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for online shopping and non-delivery fraud, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and Action Fraud data.
Mexico Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Spain Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Netherlands Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Sweden Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Brazil Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Sextortion Statistics
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.
Ransomware Statistics
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.
Toll & Delivery Text Scam (Smishing) Statistics
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.
Canada Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
France Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam & Fraud Statistics
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.
Philippines Scam & Fraud Statistics
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 Scam Statistics
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.
Pig-Butchering Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for pig-butchering (sha zhu pan) crypto investment fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 and DOJ sources.
Impersonation & Government Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for imposter and government-impersonation scams, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 official reports.
Job & Employment Scam Statistics
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.
Tech Support Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for tech-support fraud, drawn from FBI IC3 and FTC Consumer Sentinel official reports.
Gift Card Payment Scam Statistics
Reported losses and complaint volumes for scams using gift cards as the payment method, drawn from FTC Consumer Sentinel official reports.
Identity Theft Statistics
Reported incidents and financial losses from identity theft, drawn from FTC IdentityTheft.gov reports and Javelin Strategy annual studies.
Investment Scam Statistics
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.
Fraud Losses by Age Group
How reported fraud losses and report rates vary across age groups, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 data.
Fraud Losses by Payment Method
How reported fraud losses break down by payment method — bank transfer, cryptocurrency, gift card, and others — based on FTC and FBI IC3 data.
Scams by Contact Method: Phone, Email, Text & Social Media
How scammers reach victims — by phone, email, text message, or social media — and how reported losses differ by contact channel.
Year-Over-Year Fraud Loss Trend (2021–2024)
The multi-year trend in reported consumer fraud losses in the United States, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel Network annual reports.
Social Media as a Scam Origin
Reported scam losses linked to social media as the point of first contact, and how that figure has grown since 2020.
Cryptocurrency as a Payment Method in Scams
Reported fraud losses where victims paid using cryptocurrency, drawing on FTC Consumer Sentinel and FBI IC3 data for 2024.
Gift Cards as a Payment Method in Scams
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.
Bank Transfer & Wire Fraud Losses
Reported fraud losses where victims paid via bank transfer, wire transfer, or ACH — consistently among the highest-loss payment categories.
Imposter Scam Loss Trend
How reported losses to impersonation scams — government, business, and family imposters — have grown in the United States since 2020.
Romance & Relationship Scam Loss Statistics
Reported financial losses to romance scams and confidence fraud, based on FTC Consumer Sentinel Network and FBI IC3 annual data.
Elder Fraud Loss Statistics
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.
AI and Deepfake-Enabled Fraud Statistics
Verified statistics on fraud complaints and losses where artificial intelligence tools were identified as a factor, based on FBI IC3 data.
Authorised Push Payment (APP) Fraud Statistics
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).
Payment Card Fraud Statistics
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).
Internet Crime Complaint Statistics (FBI IC3)
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.