Fraud
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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Total ACH payment value increased 11%, creating a nearly 5-to-1 divergence.
In 2025, people reported more money lost to scams that started on Facebook than on any other social media platform. WhatsApp and Instagram were a distant second and third.
81% of fraud prevention, risk, and compliance professionals report an increase in mule-related activity over the past year.
53.9% of consumers believe AI could increase the risk of online fraud
Small businesses incured at least $131 billion in losses from fraud, scams, and ransomware last year.
40% of affected small businesses say fraud hurts customer acquisition.
Attempted ACH fraud value increased 52% in 2025.
More than 40% of people who lost money to a scam on social media said it started when they ordered something they’d seen in an ad
Nearly 60% of people who reported losing money to a romance scam in 2025 said it started on a social media platform.
In 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said it started on social media
$1.1 billion, more than half the money reported lost to scams initiated on social media, was to investment scammers.
A single low-cost device model drove 3% of all mobile account takeover attempts.
One in three people who reported losing money to a job or business opportunity scam in 2025 said it started on social media.
72% of small businesses experienced fraud, scams, or ransomware last year.
The number of device registration events reported by users as fraud increased 178% from 2024 to 2025.
84% of bank leaders are concerned about fraud and scams targeting their customers.
Identity theft rates peaked at 6.75% in the week of Christmas 2025.
29% of SMBs encountered deepfake schemes in the past 12 months.
Diversion tactics (fraudulent invoices, fake payroll requests) accounted for 18% of BEC incidents in Q4 2025.
Nearly 60% of organizations report fraudsters using compromised Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to bypass knowledge-based authentication (KBA).