IC3: $20.9B in losses
The FBI’s IC3 report shows Americans filed over 1 million internet‑crime complaints in 2025 with reported losses near $20.9 billion, and older adults saw identity‑theft losses rise about 70%. A local report also noted Illinois recorded roughly $535 million in cyber‑crime losses for 2025. ( )
Americans reported more than 1 million internet-crime complaints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2025, with losses climbing to nearly $20.9 billion. (fbi.gov) The Federal Bureau of Investigation said the Internet Crime Complaint Center logged 1,008,597 complaints in 2025, up from 859,532 in 2024. Reported losses reached about $20.877 billion, after topping $16 billion in 2024. (fbi.gov, fbi.gov) The most frequently reported complaints were phishing or spoofing, extortion, and investment schemes, the bureau said. Investment fraud drove nearly 49% of scam-related losses, and complaints involving cryptocurrency totaled more than $11 billion. (fbi.gov) Older Americans carried the heaviest losses. People over 60 reported about $7.7 billion in losses in 2025, a 37% increase from 2024, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (fbi.gov) The Internet Crime Complaint Center is the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s public intake system for online fraud and cybercrime reports. The bureau said it now receives almost 3,000 complaints a day and uses those reports to spot trends and route leads to law enforcement. (ic3.gov, ic3.gov) The 2025 report also added a section on artificial intelligence for the first time in the center’s nearly 25-year history. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said artificial-intelligence-related complaints reached 22,364 and reported losses approached $893 million. (fbi.gov) Illinois was one of the states hit hard by the same trend. The state recorded roughly $535 million in reported cyber-crime losses for 2025, according to coverage citing the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s state-level data. (advantagenews.com) Federal Bureau of Investigation officials have pushed victims to file reports quickly, even when the dollar loss is unclear. The bureau says fast reporting can help financial institutions freeze transfers and gives investigators better data on how scams are changing. (ic3.gov, fbi.gov) The numbers are complaint-based totals, not a full census of online crime, and the bureau has long said many victims never report what happened. Even so, the 2025 figures show the complaint system crossing the 1 million mark for the first time while losses moved past $20 billion. (ic3.gov, fbi.gov)
