{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "license_name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)",
 "attribution": "Source: TapSafely (https://tapsafely.com/data)",
 "publisher": "TapSafely",
 "about": "https://tapsafely.com/data",
 "methodology": "https://tapsafely.com/methodology",
 "dataset": "official-scam-statistics",
 "generated": "2026-09-16",
 "items": [
  {
   "region": "United States",
   "source": "Federal Trade Commission",
   "report": "FTC Testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Agency's Efforts to Combat Fraud",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2026-03-25",
   "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-testifies-joint-economic-committee-agencys-efforts-combat-fraud",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Reported fraud losses",
     "value": "$15.9 billion",
     "note": "Reported to the FTC by consumers in 2025, up from over $12 billion the year before"
    },
    {
     "label": "Fraud reports",
     "value": "3 million",
     "note": "Up from 2.6 million fraud reports the previous year"
    },
    {
     "label": "Top category by loss",
     "value": "Investment scams: $7.9 billion",
     "note": "Consumers reported losing the most money to investment scams in 2025"
    },
    {
     "label": "Most reported fraud",
     "value": "Imposter scams: more than $3.5 billion lost",
     "note": "More than 1 million imposter scam reports; the most reported fraud since 2020"
    },
    {
     "label": "Top contact method by loss",
     "value": "Social media: $2.1 billion",
     "note": "Nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said it started on social media (FTC press release, April 27, 2026)"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "United States",
   "source": "Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)",
   "report": "2025 IC3 Annual Report (Internet Crime Report)",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2026-04-06",
   "url": "https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2025_IC3Report.pdf",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Reported losses",
     "value": "$20.877 billion",
     "note": "Losses reported to IC3 in 2025"
    },
    {
     "label": "Complaints",
     "value": "1,008,597",
     "note": "Up from 859,532 in 2024"
    },
    {
     "label": "Top crime type by loss",
     "value": "Investment fraud: $8,648,617,756",
     "note": ""
    },
    {
     "label": "Business email compromise losses",
     "value": "$3,046,598,558",
     "note": "From 24,768 complaints"
    },
    {
     "label": "Cryptocurrency-related losses",
     "value": "$11.366 billion",
     "note": "From 181,565 complaints involving cryptocurrency"
    },
    {
     "label": "Losses reported by people over 60",
     "value": "$7.748 billion",
     "note": "From 201,266 complaints; losses up 59% and complaints up 37% from 2024"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "United Kingdom",
   "source": "UK Finance",
   "report": "Annual Fraud Report 2026 (press release: Fraud remains a national security threat as criminals steal almost £1.3 billion)",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2026-06-15",
   "url": "https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/news-and-insight/press-release/fraud-report-2026-press-release",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Total fraud losses",
     "value": "£1.28 billion",
     "note": "Stolen through payment fraud in 2025, up four per cent"
    },
    {
     "label": "Unauthorised fraud losses",
     "value": "£703.4 million",
     "note": "Down five per cent"
    },
    {
     "label": "APP scam losses",
     "value": "£576.4 million",
     "note": "Authorised push payment fraud, up 19 per cent"
    },
    {
     "label": "Unauthorised fraud prevented",
     "value": "£1.68 billion",
     "note": "Stopped by the banking industry before it could be stolen"
    },
    {
     "label": "Fraud cases",
     "value": "3.81 million",
     "note": "Up 11 per cent"
    },
    {
     "label": "APP losses reimbursed",
     "value": "£354.3 million",
     "note": "Equivalent to 61 per cent of APP losses"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "Australia",
   "source": "Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, National Anti-Scam Centre",
   "report": "Targeting scams: report of the National Anti-Scam Centre on scams data and activity 2025 (media release: Continued action critical to combat fraud as annual scam losses exceed $2 billion)",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2026-03-30",
   "url": "https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/continued-action-critical-to-combat-fraud-as-annual-scam-losses-exceed-2-billion",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Reported scam losses",
     "value": "$2.18 billion",
     "note": "Australian dollars; losses up 7.8 per cent compared with 2024"
    },
    {
     "label": "Scam reports",
     "value": "481,523",
     "note": "Combined total across reporting agencies in 2025"
    },
    {
     "label": "Reports with a financial loss",
     "value": "274,577",
     "note": ""
    },
    {
     "label": "Top scam type by loss",
     "value": "Investment scams: $837.7m",
     "note": "Australian dollars"
    },
    {
     "label": "Share of losses by people aged 65 and over",
     "value": "26.5 per cent",
     "note": "This age group is about 17.1 per cent of the population"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "Canada",
   "source": "Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre",
   "report": "Fraud Prevention Month to bring hidden crime into the spotlight",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2026-03-06",
   "url": "https://antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/news-nouvelles/2026/2026-03-06-eng.htm",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Reported fraud losses",
     "value": "over $704 million",
     "note": "Canadian dollars, lost to fraud in 2025"
    },
    {
     "label": "Fraud reports",
     "value": "over 112,000",
     "note": "Received by the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre in 2025 (Fraud Prevention Month 2026 page)"
    },
    {
     "label": "Share of frauds reported",
     "value": "only 5% to 10%",
     "note": "Most fraud goes unreported, so real losses are far higher"
    },
    {
     "label": "Reported losses since 2022",
     "value": "surpassing $2.4 billion",
     "note": "Canadian dollars"
    },
    {
     "label": "Top fraud types by financial impact",
     "value": "Investment fraud, romance fraud and job fraud",
     "note": ""
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "Global",
   "source": "Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA)",
   "report": "Global State of Scams Report 2025",
   "year": 2025,
   "published": "2025-10-07",
   "url": "https://gasa.org/knowledge-base/blog/gasa-policy-agenda-2026",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Estimated scam losses",
     "value": "$442 billion",
     "note": "Estimated losses across the 42 countries surveyed, based on a consumer survey"
    },
    {
     "label": "Adults who lost money to scams",
     "value": "23%",
     "note": "Of 46,000 people surveyed, in the past year"
    },
    {
     "label": "Adults who experienced a scam",
     "value": "57 percent",
     "note": "Share of adults worldwide (GASA and Feedzai launch post, October 7, 2025)"
    },
    {
     "label": "Survey size",
     "value": "46,000 adults across 42 markets",
     "note": ""
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "region": "Europe (EEA)",
   "source": "European Central Bank and European Banking Authority",
   "report": "Joint EBA-ECB report on payment fraud: strong authentication remains effective but fraudsters are adapting",
   "year": 2024,
   "published": "2025-12-15",
   "url": "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr251215~e133d9d683.en.html",
   "facts": [
    {
     "label": "Payment fraud value",
     "value": "€4.2 billion",
     "note": "Total payment fraud in the EEA in 2024, up from €3.5 billion in 2023"
    },
    {
     "label": "Credit transfer fraud",
     "value": "€2.2 billion",
     "note": "2024, a 16% year on year increase"
    },
    {
     "label": "Credit transfer losses borne by users",
     "value": "approximately 85%",
     "note": "Share of credit transfer fraud losses borne by payment service users in 2024"
    },
    {
     "label": "Card fraud outside the EEA",
     "value": "17 times higher",
     "note": "Card payment fraud when the recipient was outside the EEA, where strong authentication is not legally required"
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}