Scams
We've curated 240 cybersecurity statistics about Scams to help you understand how phishing, online fraud, and social engineering tactics are evolving in 2025. Discover how these deceptive practices are impacting individuals and businesses alike.
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A 340% increase in financial scams was reported in Q2 2025.
The risk of being targeted by a financial scam increased 3-fold from April to June 2025.
Scams are still the method of choice across 57% of attempted fraud transactions.
In 2024, the total value of international wire transactions declined 6% year over year.
From 2023 to 2024, fraudsters' focus shifted back slightly towards Account Takeover (ATO) Fraud from Scams in terms of overall value of attempts.
67% of all fraud is linked to just 7% of payments made to newly added payees
Zelle transactions saw a 26% increase in value in 2024.
Zelle transactions were accompanied by a 34% rise in attempted fraud in 2024.
From a volume perspective, there was a slight shift towards Scams to 52% in 2024 vs. a 50/50 split in 2023.
The value of attempted fraud for international wires surged 40% in 2024.
Boomers encountered extortion scams at 23% and fell victim at 7%.
Over half of scam victims (52%) suffer financial loss or fraud.
Only 15% of people strongly agree they could detect a scam.
One in four users (25%) say they have stopped caring, accepting scams as an inevitable cost of being online.
Nearly half (46%) of scam victims struggle with mental health effects like anxiety, depression and lost trust.
Three in four (75%) of users have encountered social engineering attempts like phishing and impersonation scams.
58% of Gen Z have encountered extortion scams, including deepfakes and sextortion.
The majority of users (66%) state it is hard to tell apart a scam from the real thing.
Only 17% of scam victims report scams to authorities.
36% of users have fallen victim to a mobile scam.