#CryptoScamSurge
📊 The most important data and trends
💰 Loss scale
• In 2024, losses from crypto fraudsters amounted to about 4.6 billion USD, which means an increase of 24% compared to 2023.
• Chainalysis estimates as high as $9.9 billion in 2024 and forecasts over $12 billion in 2025, taking into account identified addresses linked to fraud
• According to CoinLaw, global crypto scams reached $14.5 billion in 2024, 23% more than in 2023
🔐 The first half of 2025
• By June 2025, losses exceeded $2.17 billion, already exceeding the level of the whole of 2024
• SlowMist reports 121 security incidents and losses of about $2.37 billion, an increase of ≈66% year-on-year
• Biggest incident: theft on the Bybit exchange worth $1.46 billion (the largest in history)
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🧠 New fraud tactics
🔍 Deepfakes and AI
• In Q1 2025, 87 groups of fraudsters using deepfakes were eliminated in Asia
• About 39% of regulator complaints expect an increase in the number of AI-generated fraudulent content; about 22% predict an increase in deepfakes
• Bitget and SlowMist recorded a 245 percent increase in deepfake scams in 2024
