Two-thirds of people are worried about the future of AI and how realistic scams are going to become.

Three-quarters of scam victims (75%) report serious emotional consequences.

Three in four (75%) of users have encountered social engineering attempts like phishing and impersonation scams.

Nearly half of users (44%) encounter mobile scams daily.

The majority of users (66%) state it is hard to tell apart a scam from the real thing.

58% of Gen Z have encountered extortion scams, including deepfakes and sextortion.

Nearly half (46%) of scam victims struggle with mental health effects like anxiety, depression and lost trust.

More than a quarter (27%) of scam victims lose access to critical digital assets like accounts, devices or irreplaceable files.

Only 14% of younger generation scam victims report scam to authorities.

Scams, including authorized push payment (APP) fraud, represent 11% of cases. This is down from 16% of cases in 2023.

Synthetic fraud saw a decline, dropping from 1% to 0.75% during 2H 2024.

There was a nearly fourfold increase in fraud targeting deposit accounts—from 2% to almost 8% in the second half of 2024.

Scammers are taking advantage of the wave of store closures, including Joann and Forever 21, to create fake 'going out of business' sales.

Guardio detected a 604% increase in toll-related scam texts since the beginning of the year.

Three toll collection services, SunPass, E-ZPass, and EZDrive Massachusetts, appeared in the top 10 most targeted brands by cybercriminals.

The top 10 most imitated brands in Q1 2025 are: Steam, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, Roblox, SunPass, E-ZPass, USPS, EZDrive Massachusetts, Netflix, and WeTransfer.

There was a 1,033% surge in utility account fraud over the past year.

There was an almost 500% increase in student loan scams over the past year.

There was a 46% rise in personal document theft leading to identity theft in 2024

Steam leads the list of the most impersonated brands in phishing scams.