The Consumer Federation of America said that Americans lost an estimated $80.7 billion to cryptocurrency-related scams and cybercrime in 2025. The figure goes far beyond the $11.4 billion reported to the FBI, with the study treating underreported fraud as the central gap in measuring crypto losses.
An updated report from CFA projects that #Americans are losing an estimated $148.2 billion every year to #OnlineScams. Over half of all reported losses involved #Crypto#ScamEconomyhttps://t.co/O9a6xMuHLS
— Consumer Federation of America (@ConsumerFed) July 28, 2026
Crypto accounted for more than half of the losses reported through the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and increased nearly 22% from 2024. The federation applied a 7.1-times multiplier to reported figures, based on earlier federal victimization data, making the $80.7 billion total an extrapolated estimate rather than a direct count of verified cases.
Across all online scams and crimes, the organization estimated $148.2 billion in U.S. losses, up 25.8% year over year and averaging $1,009 per household. The next test is whether updated reporting and enforcement data narrow that gap, because crypto’s estimated share now places digital-asset fraud at the center of the broader scam economy.
Source: Consumer Federation of America.
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