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We've curated 570 cybersecurity statistics about Fraud to help you understand how tactics like phishing, identity theft, and payment fraud are evolving in 2025, impacting businesses and consumers alike in our increasingly digital world.

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34% of business leaders globally reported using biometrics as the primary method of customer authentication, an increase of five percentage points from 2024.

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Biometrics

The Telecommunications industry in the US saw the highest industry/stage fraud rate, with 37.8% of account creation transactions suspected of digital fraud.

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Industry fraudStage fraud

The US Communities (online dating, forums, etc.) industry experienced the highest overall suspected fraud rate at 13.7%, driven by a 139% volume increase from H1 2022 to H1 2025.

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CommunitiesUS

The Gaming industry, including online sports betting, had a global suspected fraud attempt rate of 6.8%.

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Gaming

43% of business leaders ranked behavioral biometrics in their top three technologies for preventing fraud.

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Biometrics

34% of business leaders globally utilized usernames and passwords as the primary method of customer authentication, a decrease of five percentage points from 2024.

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UsernamePassword

Digital account takeover volume saw a 141% uptick between H1 2021 and H1 2025.

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Account takeover

34% of consumers in the surveyed Latin American countries reported being targeted by email, online, phone call, or text messaging fraud from February to May 2025.

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Latin AmericaEmail

The US suspected digital fraud rate fell to 3.5% in H1 2025 after spiking at 4.5% in H1 2024.

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Username

Hong Kong business leaders claimed their companies lost the equivalent of 7.1% of their revenues to fraud in the past year, representing HK$92 billion.

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Fraud lossHong Kong

The suspected digital fraud rate for account logins in Hong Kong was 10.8%, more than two times higher than the global average.

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Hong Kong

The Communities (online dating, forums, etc.) industry in the UK had the highest suspected digital fraud rate at 10.0%.

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CommunitiesUK

The Dominican Republic reported a suspected digital fraud rate of 8.6% in H1 2025, the highest among analyzed Latin American countries.

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Dominican Republic

13% of targeted consumers in India fell victim to fraud, a number higher than the 9% global average.

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India

Financial transaction fraud remained low across all African markets, ranging from 0.2%–0.9%, significantly below the 2.7% global average.

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Financial transaction fraudAfrica

Scammer/solicitation fraud grew the most since H1 2021, increasing by 184%.

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Scam

5% of targeted UK consumers fell victim to fraud, a decrease from 6% reported late last year.

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UK

43% of business leaders ranked IP intelligence in their top three technologies for preventing fraud.

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IP intelligence

Kenya's suspected digital fraud rate was 2.6% in H1 2025, the highest rate among analyzed African countries, yet lower than the 3.8% global rate.

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Kenya

25% of surveyed business executives in Latin America reported their companies lost the equivalent of 10% or more of their revenues in the past year.

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Fraud lossLatin America