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Scammers.com is an independent, public-interest scam-awareness site.
Scams by the numbers
Official U.S. figures for calendar year 2025, released in 2026. They count only losses people reported, so the real totals are higher.
- $15.9 billion
- reported lost to fraud by U.S. consumers in 2025, up from more than $12 billion in 2024.
- Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel, 2025 data (March 2026)
- 3 million
- fraud reports filed with the FTC in 2025, up from 2.6 million in 2024.
- Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel, 2025 data (March 2026)
- $7.9 billion
- lost to investment scams in 2025, the costliest type of fraud reported to the FTC.
- Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel, 2025 data (March 2026)
- 1 million+
- impostor scam reports in 2025, the most-reported fraud type, with more than $3.5 billion lost.
- Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel, 2025 data (March 2026)
- $2.1 billion
- lost in 2025 to scams that started on social media, the costliest way scammers reached people.
- Source: FTC Data Spotlight (April 2026)
- $20.9 billion
- in losses across 1,008,597 internet crime complaints to the FBI in 2025, up 26% from 2024.
- Source: FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report
- $11.4 billion
- lost in cryptocurrency-related fraud reported to the FBI in 2025 (181,565 complaints).
- Source: FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report
- $7.7 billion
- lost by Americans aged 60 and older in 2025, up 59% from 2024 (201,266 complaints).
- Source: FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report
- All fraud reported to the FBI (IC3) (FBI IC3)$20.9 billion
- All fraud reported to the FTC (FTC)$15.9 billion
- Cryptocurrency-related fraud (FBI IC3)$11.4 billion
- Investment scams (FTC)$7.9 billion
- Losses by people 60 and older (FBI IC3)$7.7 billion
- Impostor scams (FTC)$3.5 billion
- Scams that started on social media (FTC)$2.1 billion
Sources: FTC Consumer Sentinel 2025 data (March 2026), FTC Data Spotlight (April 2026), FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report. The FTC and FBI collect reports separately and their totals overlap, so the bars should not be added together.
Our mission
Scams are designed by professionals to fool smart, careful people. Our goal is simple: make it fast and free to check whether a phone number, website, email or message has fooled someone else — and to explain, in plain English, how scams work so you can recognise the next one.
What we do
- Scam lookup. Search reports by phone number, website, email address or keyword.
- Public reporting. Anyone can report a scam in a few minutes.
- Investigations & guides. Our writers explain emerging scams, red flags and recovery steps.
- Signposting. We point people to the official agencies that can investigate and help.
How reports are handled
New reports are held privately until a moderator has reviewed them. Our moderation team reviews reports, removes personal information about uninvolved people, merges duplicates and marks entries as reviewed. A listing reflects people's reported experiences — it is not a legal finding that any person or business committed fraud. Scammers frequently spoof phone numbers and impersonate real brands; if you believe your number, site or business has been listed in error, please contact us so we can review it.
What we are not
We are not a government agency, law enforcement, or a money-recovery service. We will never ask you for payment to recover lost funds — and you should be wary of anyone who does.