{
    "statement": "lost to investment fraud in 2025, the costliest type of internet crime reported to the FBI ($8,648,617,756)",
    "value_display": "$8.65B",
    "value_numeric": 8.65,
    "unit": "$B",
    "data_label": "2025",
    "data_period_end": "2025-12-31",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "all",
    "source": {
        "name": "Internet Crime Report (IC3 Annual Report)",
        "publisher": "FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center",
        "type": "official",
        "url": "https://www.ic3.gov/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2025_IC3Report.pdf",
    "source_quote": "Investment $8,648,617,756",
    "verification_note": "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.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-investment-fraud-losses-2025",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/cybersecurity/us-investment-fraud-losses-2025.csv"
}