Curding fraud amounted to the highest level in 2024, when Americans lost $ 9.32 billion for digital fraud, a New Federal Bureau report Show Monday.
The losses are a 66 % increase from last year and represent more than half of the Internet crime losses throughout the country. The online crime complaints center of the FBI (IC3) has reported approximately 150,000 coding complaints as part of its annual online crime review.
The elderly people of Americans lose billions of dollars in defrauding digital currencies
Americans over the age of 60 have become major goals for cryptocurrencies. The FBI report shows that complaints are Senior citizens 96 % increased in 2024, with 33.36 reports compared to 16.96 in 2023. These older victims lost $ 2.84 billion in encryption fraud plans, an increase of 71 % over the previous year.
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You did not leave the brackets of the younger age behind it. According to FBI statistics, victims less than 20 years old made 1819 reports with $ 7.77 million losses. The Americans, between the ages of 20 to 29, have reported 370.44 million dollars, while the thirties lost one billion dollars. The most affected age of work age was between 40 and 49 years old, which lost a $ 1.46 billion cryptocurrencies.
Investment fraud operations are working on the scene of the encryption fraud
The report indicates how false investment plans are still the most widespread and expensive encryption. According to the Federal Investigation Office (FBI), these types of plans resulted in 41,557 complaints and $ 5.81 billion of losses, and an increase of 47 % compared to 2023. victims are usually guaranteed by large returns on investments in the cryptocurrency that never comes.
The other prevailing cryptocurrency tactics of the FBI (FBI) includes fraud and kiosks, which included approximately 11,000 complaints and 246.7 million dollars of losses. Fraud, the technical support in which attackers who impersonated IT support received 962 million dollars from more than 11,000 victims. American business fraud cost $ 197 million, while romantic fraud that involves an encrypted currency has emptied $ 237 million of victims looking for love.
Government fraud, in which attackers, as officials from organizations such as the Tax Authority or Social Security Administration, led to losses of $ 146 million. Run attacks, despite less in 389 complaints, still lead to $ 1.07 million of damage.
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The FBI’s prevention program provides $ 286 million
The “Employment level” program of the Federal Investigation Office provided millions of dollars from potential losses by warning individuals targeting it as coded currency contestants. The initiative informed 4,323 potential victims of continuous attempts to defraud them. The report says 76 % of them have no idea that they are fraud.
This warning system has avoided $ 286 million from the losses that would have been otherwise. How this program succeeded in directly contradicts the increasing direction of the crime of encryption, which, in a large part, is generally formed 16.6 billion dollars The Americans deceived the Internet in 2024 – by 33 % for the previous year.
The Internet Crime Complaints Center of the Federal Investigation Office, which represents the twenty -fifth anniversary of this report, continues to monitor the coded currency fraud as one of the fastest areas of electronic crime.
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