American Crypto Fraud Topped $11 Billion In 2025, Shattering Records: FBI

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center released its 2025 annual report earlier today, revealing that cryptocurrency-related fraud drained more than $11.3 billion from American victims last year — a figure that now accounts for more than half of all reported cybercrime losses nationwide.

The report, covering data gathered from the FBI’s IC3 platform, logged a total of 1,008,597 complaints with $20.877 billion in combined losses — a 26% jump from 2024 . 

Within that staggering total, the cryptocurrency descriptor alone generated 181,565 complaints and $11.366 billion in losses, making digital assets the single most loss-heavy category tracked in the report.

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