Internet-crime losses
Reported to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2025, up 26% from 2024.
FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report ↗WHY BUSINESSES USE CONNECTED INTELLIGENCE
Scams attack more than money.
They attack trust.
Impersonation, account takeover, fraudulent websites, social engineering, and payment diversion can fragment evidence across teams and channels. Dustpan Nexus gives authorized organizations one traceable Case record for preserving what happened, extracting supported indicators, and finding relationships that isolated reports can miss.
REPORTED IMPACT / 2025 DATA
The scale is measurable.
The real total may be larger.
These figures come from reports submitted to U.S. government systems. They describe reported activity—not a complete census of all fraud.
Business email compromise
Reported BEC losses in 2025, making it the second-largest IC3 crime type by reported loss.
FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report ↗Imposter-scam losses
Reported to the FTC for 2025, including nearly $1 billion attributed to business impersonators.
Federal Trade Commission ↗Fraud reports involved imposters
Nearly one in three FTC fraud reports for 2025 concerned an imposter scam.
Federal Trade Commission ↗Reading the data: FBI and FTC figures use different reporting systems and definitions and should not be added together. Reports may be incomplete or unverified, and many incidents are never reported.
FROM INCIDENTS TO DECISIONS
Why a business needs
one intelligence picture.
Protect brand trust
Track how names, websites, contact details, and customer-facing narratives are being misused without treating every report as an isolated event.
Preserve defensible evidence
Keep original material, provenance, timestamps, hashes, and analyst context connected to the Case that supports each conclusion.
Recognize repeated patterns
Compare indicators and behavior across historical Cases to surface possible entities and Campaigns with explainable reasons.
Coordinate faster
Give security, fraud, trust-and-safety, legal, and leadership teams a shared record instead of scattered screenshots and inbox threads.
CURRENT SCAM BULLETIN
Signals worth watching.
AUGUST 2026 BRIEFINGLast reviewed August 27, 2026
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THIS WEEK'S ANALYTICAL THEME
Trusted identities are becoming attack surfaces.
Recent public alerts show criminals impersonating government systems, recognizable brands, property owners, and financial organizations. The recurring lesson for businesses is not merely to collect URLs or phone numbers—it is to preserve how those indicators, messages, identities, and payment instructions connect.
Scammers impersonate IC3 to revictimize people
The FBI warned that fraud actors use fake personnel, spoofed sites, and AI-generated media to pose as the IC3 and offer false recovery help.
Read the official alert ↗Reported imposter losses reached $3.5 billion
The FTC said imposter scams were its most-reported fraud category for 2025 and arrived through phone, email, text, social media, search, and other channels.
Read the FTC release ↗Scam-center actions expose connected infrastructure
The Justice Department announced charges, more than 500 seized scam websites, and over $700 million in restrained cryptocurrency tied to alleged laundering.
Read the DOJ release ↗PUBLIC-SOURCE ARCHIVE
Earlier signals.
Curated from primary public sources. External reports provide context; they do not become Dustpan Nexus Case evidence unless separately collected, verified, and linked with provenance.
Parcel-owner impersonation targets property salesFBI / IC3 ↗
Spoofed brand websites target World Cup audiencesFBI / IC3 ↗
Reported social-media scam losses reached $2.1 billion in 2025FTC ↗
FBI publishes the 2025 Internet Crime ReportFBI / IC3 ↗
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