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Americans Lost $11 Billion to Crypto Scams Last Year. Most of It Ended at a Gas Station

Americans filed 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025 and reported more than $11.366 billion in losses, with crypto making up over half of the FBI IC3’s $20.877 billion in total internet-crime losses. A fast-growing slice is crypto kiosks, which generated $389 million across 13,460 complaints, and victims 60 and older accounted for $257.4 million of that…

Man with a mask holding a physical bitcoinAmericans filed 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025 and reported more than $11.366 billion in losses, with crypto making up over half of the FBI IC3’s $20.877 billion in total internet-crime losses. A fast-growing slice is crypto kiosks, which generated $389 million across 13,460 complaints, and victims 60 and older accounted for $257.4 million of that […]

Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/americans-lost-11-billion-to-crypto-scams-last-year-most-of-it-ended-at-a-gas-station-49201/