AI-Enabled Fraud and Elder Fraud — FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report

Summary

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center's 2025 annual report, its first with an AI section, records 22,364 complaints with an AI nexus and $893,346,472 in adjusted losses. Within that, victims reported over $5 million lost to 'distress' scams that can use voice cloning, over $30 million to AI-involved business email compromise and over $632 million to investment scams with a reported AI nexus. Separately, people aged 60 and over filed 201,266 complaints with $7.748 billion in losses, up 59% on 2024, an average of $38,500, with 12,444 losing more than $100,000.

Consequence

• $893,346,472 in adjusted losses across 22,364 AI-related complaints in 2025
• $7.748 billion in losses reported by victims aged 60 and over in 2025

Who caught it The person affectedFound outside the organization

This is a statistic: context for the failures library rather than an incident at one organization, so it carries no lesson.

Key dates

1. April 2026Event
2. October 16, 2026Checked against sources
3. October 21, 2026Checked against sources

Developments are added when the record is reviewed. Next review: October 16, 2027.

Evidence

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1. In 2025, IC3 received more than 22,000 complaints reporting AI-related information. Adjusted losses of these complaints exceed $893 million.

   Supports: AI-related complaints and losses

   Describes Elder Fraud highlights: 201,266 complaints (37% increase from 2024); $7,748 billion losses (59%

   Supports: Elder fraud complaints and losses (the report's own text reads '$7,748 billion'; its chart reads $7.748 billion)

   Victims claimed losses over $5 million in 2025 to distress scams.

   Supports: Distress (voice-clone) scam losses

   In 2025, businesses reported losses over $30 million to BEC scams involving AI.

   Supports: AI-involved business email compromise losses

   In 2025, losses in Investment complaints with a reported AI-nexus, surpassed $632 million.

   Supports: AI-nexus investment scam losses

   2025 IC3 Annual Report Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internet Crime Complaint Center Primary source

2. Created: Thursday, April 9, 2026 – 15:11

   Supports: Report released by April 9, 2026

   (TLP:CLEAR) FBI's IC3 Releases 2025 Internet Crime Report WaterISAC Reporting or analysis