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entry · p2026-09-06-144 · validated

Generative AI in fraud (deepfake video, voice cloning, synthetic text)

In 2025, IC3 received more than 22,000 complaints reporting AI-related information. Adjusted losses of these complaints exceed $893 million.
tech
generative-fraud
passes the definition as
generative models fit to image, audio and text data, used to impersonate people in fraud
from
2025-01
region
US
domain
safety
side
loss
people
22,364 complainants reporting AI-related fraud (2025-12-31)
effect
893,346,472 USD (2025-12-31) — adjusted losses on complaints in which AI was reported as part of the fraud
reversible
no
who holds the switch
nobody
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
The FBI's 2025 IC3 annual report carried its first dedicated AI section: 22,364 complaints citing AI, $893,346,472 in adjusted losses, out of 1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion total losses for 2025.
source
https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2025_IC3Report.pdf
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2024-2026
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2024-2026.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:47-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 application/pdf)
  2. 2026-09-06T09:59:36-04:00 · sessionseverity — money lost to fraud for good
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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