Cybercriminals and scammers stole a record $16B in 2024, new FBI report says

Scammers stole more than $243 million from Coloradans in 2024

Colorado ranked seventh in the country for scam complaints per capita last year. Those scammers stole more than $243 million from Coloradans in 2024, nearly $56 million more than in 2023, according to the FBI.

FBI: Scammers stole more than $243 million in 2024

(COLORADO) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that in 2024, scammers took $243,517,403 from victims in Colorado. The FBI said, according to a report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Colorado was the seventh in the nation in terms of complaints filed per capita, with 14,848 reports made to IC3. The over $243 million is an increase of nearly $56 million over the 2023 dollar amount. The FBI said the top three sche…

Text scammers made more money than ever in 2024

WXIN/WTTV -- If it seems like scam texts have simply become part of daily life, there could be good reason for that: crooks are making a lot of money off them. Just last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission, text scammers took a record $470 million from their victims. That’s more than five times the $86 million they made in 2020. And as the dollar losses have gone up, the number of scam reports has gone down, suggesting that crooks ar…

The advance of cybercrime in the United States reached historic levels in 2024. This was revealed in the new report of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3), which reported economic losses of more than $16.6 billion, an increase of 33% over the previous year. Compared to 2020, economic losses for cybercrime quadrupled, with an increase of 295% since 2020. A fact that clearly marks how the financial impact of digital crime is growing a…

Cybercrooks scammed DC, Md. and Va. out of $848 million in 2024

Cybercriminals were quite successful in duping people and businesses in D.C., Maryland and Virginia last year, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s 2024 internet Crime Report found that the two states and the nation’s capital lost a combined $848 million. Nationwide, $16.6 billion was scammed from people who lost money looking to get involved in phony investments to those whose heart strings were tugged at in romance schem…

West Virginians lost more than $24 million to internet scams in 2024, FBI says

(WTRF) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, highlighting a significant increase in online fraud and scams. Last year, victims across the nation filed 859,532 complaints, resulting in reported losses exceeding $16 billion—a 33% rise compared to 2023. Phishing and spoofing scams led the number of complaints, followed by extortion and personal data breaches. Howe…