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On-line scammers stole a report $16.6B final 12 months, FBI says

Editorial Board Published April 24, 2025
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On-line scammers swindled folks out of a report sum of money in 2024, in response to a newly launched report from the FBI’s Web Crime Criticism Middle (IC3). 

The IC3 mentioned Wednesday in its “2024 Internet Crime Report” that losses from web scams and different malicious on-line exercise totaled $16.6 billion, up 33% from the prior 12 months. 

Individuals over the age of 60 accounted for the best variety of complaints (greater than 147,100) and the biggest quantity of losses ($4.8 billion), the report mentioned.

On-line dangerous actors scammed folks out of a report sum of money final 12 months. ((Getty Pictures) / Getty Pictures)

In 2024, the IC3 fielded greater than 859,500 complaints from folks of all ages who mentioned that they had fallen sufferer to on-line scams and cybercrimes.

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The complaints that the IC3 obtained have been for crimes in classes like phishing/spoofing, extortion, private information breach, non-payment, funding, tech help and extra.

There have been over 193,400 complaints about phishing or spoofing scams, making it probably the most generally reported sort of web crime for the IC3 in 2024, in response to the report. 

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The complaints that the IC3 obtained have been for crimes in classes like phishing/spoofing, extortion, private information breach, non-payment, funding, tech help and extra. (Photograph by Annette Riedl/image alliance through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Crimes associated to cryptocurrency have been on the middle of almost 149,700 complaints. 

The IC3 report additionally detailed the losses incurred from numerous web scams and crimes.

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“Fraud represented the bulk of reported losses in 2024, and ransomware was again the most pervasive threat to critical infrastructure, with complaints rising 9% from 2023,” mentioned B. Chad Yarbrough, the FBI operations director for legal and cyber.

Crimes associated to cryptocurrency have been on the middle of almost 149,700 complaints.  (iStock / iStock)

Practically 83% of all losses stemmed from cyber-enabled fraud, crimes through which criminals “use the Internet or other technology to commit fraudulent activities, often involving the theft of money, data, or identity, or the creation of counterfeit goods or services,” the IC3 reported. That led to $13.7 billion in losses in 2024, in response to the report.

The IC3 additionally mentioned cryptocurrency has “become an enticing means to cheat investors, launder proceeds, and engage in other illicit schemes.” In 2024, losses from cryptocurrency fraud posted a 66% improve year-over-year, totalling $9.3 billion. 

Yarbrough warned within the report that the “attack surface” for on-line dangerous actors has “grown exponentially” as “nearly all aspects of our lives have become digitally connected.”

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“Scammers are increasingly using the Internet to steal Americans’ hard-earned savings,” he mentioned. “And with today’s technology, it can take mere taps on a keyboard to hijack networks, cripple water systems or even rob virtual exchanges.”

The IC3, which was created in 2000, has seen about 4.2 million complaints of web scams and cybercrimes over the previous 5 years. Losses over that timeframe amounted to $50.5 billion, it mentioned.

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