The FBI says AI-driven scams are costing Americans hundreds of millions of dollars as thieves leverage the technology to scale and amplify attacks.
In its Internet Crime Report 2025, the FBI says individuals and businesses have lost over $893.346 million to scammers using artificial intelligence.
The Bureau says it has logged about 22,364 complaints in AI-related scams over the last year, noting that the technology enables fraudsters to generate fake content and personalized conversations en masse.
According to the FBI, the bulk of the losses came from investment scams. Thieves use AI to create fake profiles, deepfakes of CEOs and celebrities, professional-looking endorsements and thousands of conversations to deceive victims into pouring money into fraudulent schemes. The FBI says AI investment scams shattered $632 million last year.
The FBI also says firms lost more than $30 million to business email compromise scams (BEC) in 2025, as scammers use official-sounding emails and voice cloning to dupe employees into wiring funds.
AI romance and confidence scams bilked $19 million from victims last year, while AI-involved employment schemes fleeced $13 million from job hunters.
“Like most technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is a tool which can be used for legitimate, helpful purposes or for criminal motives. AI technology enables the creation of convincing synthetic content, such as social media profiles and personalized conversations, often in mass quantities.
People have manipulated video and audio similarly for decades, but the widespread availability of this developing technology makes it possible to create high-quality content. AI-enabled synthetic content is becoming increasingly difficult to detect and easier to make, which allows criminal actors to potentially conduct successful fraud schemes against individuals, businesses, and financial institutions.”
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