Residents of 42 countries lost $442 billion to online scammers in 2025, who increasingly use SI
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The same SI tools that make work easier have also made fraud cheaper, so people and companies need stronger defenses.
According to Bloomberg, as relayed by Vedomosti and RBC and citing the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, residents of 42 countries lost $442 billion to online scammers in 2025; the report links the growth of the schemes to SI tools. The original Bloomberg article is not accessible, so the figures come from the retellings. About 57% of surveyed adults said they had been scam victims. Bloomberg describes the tools as now cheap: access to vulnerabilities costs about $500 a month by subscription, and a mass mailing to 10,000 addresses costs $1. The number of people involved in such schemes rose more than fivefold from 2023 to 2026, and the cyber insurance market grew 150% over five years.
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