Fact-check · Oct 21, 2026
“Americans reported losing more than $20,000,000,000 to cyber enabled crimes”
TRUE
What the record shows
FBI IC3 2025 report: $20.877 billion in reported cyber-enabled crime losses across 1,008,597 complaints (April 2026)
Claim of 'more than $20 billion' matches FBI IC3's official 2025 figure of $20.877 billion, a 26% increase from 2024.
Sources
- FBI’s 2024 Internet Crime Complaint Center Report Released
- (TLP:CLEAR) FBI’s IC3 Releases 2025 Internet Crime Report - WaterISAC
- The sobering truth of the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Center Report
- FBI IC3 2025 report: Email fraud is now a $4 billion problem
- Internet Crime Complaint Center
- FBI IC3 Report: Half of 2025 U.S. Fraud Losses Were Linked to Cryptocurrency Scams
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