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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

36% of users have fallen victim to a mobile scam.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsPhishing

Exposure to mobile scams is highest in the US (51%) and UK (49%), and notably lower in DACH (38%).

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsUK

Gen X encountered extortion scams at 35% and fell victim at 15%.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsExtortion

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

Boomers encountered extortion scams at 23% and fell victim at 7%.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsExtortion

One in four users (25%) say they have stopped caring, accepting scams as an inevitable cost of being online.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

Over half of scam victims (52%) suffer financial loss or fraud.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsFinancial loss

Only 17% of scam victims report scams to authorities.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsDeepfakes

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsAI

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

Only 15% of people strongly agree they could detect a scam.

6/10/2025
Scams

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

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scams

28% of Gen Z have fallen victim to extortion scams.

6/10/2025
ScamsMobile scamsExtortion

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

6/10/2025
Scams

70% believe "we will never have simple, meaningful ways to protect our data".

4/9/2025
Personal informationConsumerData misuse

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