Official dataAll sizesUSA
$20.877B
reported lost to internet crime in the US in 2025, up 26% from 2024 (FBI IC3)
Sample: All complaints filed with IC3 in 2025 (1,008,597); not a sample. Each complaint has one crime type.
Official dataUpdated 23 Oct 2026
$8.65Blost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756)
$8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756) (2025, FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report))
Official dataChecked at source, 23 Oct 2026All sizesUSACyber security · Crime
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What this number really says
$8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756) (2025).
$8.65B
the latest figure (2025)
Official data
type of source
Why you can trust it. FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report): official data, government statistics office or regulator.
Key facts
- Period 2025
- Region USA
- Company size All sizes
- Next data 30 Apr 2027
Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report), 2025
Method and use
How it was measured, and how to use it
How it was measured
- Publisher
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report)
- Source type
- Official data: Government statistics office or regulator
- What it measures
- $8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756)
- Data period
- 2025 (ends 31 Dec 2025)
- Published by the source
- 7 Apr 2026
- In the source's words
Investment $8,648,617,756
- Checked at source
- 23 Oct 2026: Read in the 2025 IC3 Annual Report PDF on ic3.gov (text extracted page by page). The PDF carries no date; 7 Apr 2026 is the FBI release date. Crime types by complaint loss, p.8. Value rounded from $8,648,617,756. New stat.
- Reuse
- Public domain (US government work). Complaint data, not a sample: only what victims chose to report. Cite the FBI IC3 and the report year. Charts may be redrawn.
- Next expected update
- 30 Apr 2027 (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, yearly, each spring (2025 report released April 2026))
- Original page
- www.ic3.gov: Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report)
- Data files
- CSV · JSON (stable links)
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FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. (2026). $8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756). Via digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-investment-fraud-losses-2025
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"$8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756)." FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report), 2025. digitaltreed, https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-investment-fraud-losses-2025.
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$8.65B lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756), for 2025, according to FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report). We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.
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