u/border_dad
· 5h
2025. $21 billion. Up 26 percent. Hold that chain.
Cybercrime losses near $21B: 5 ways to protect your money
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The FBI logged nearly $21 billion stolen in 2025. AI made the fake voice sound like family.
Summary
- Fox News reports Americans reported nearly $21 billion in cyber-enabled crime losses in 2025, up 26 percent from the year before, according to FBI data.
- Investment fraud caused the largest hit at about $8.65 billion. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 22,364 complaints in 2025 that included AI-related information, with about $893 million in losses tied to those complaints.
- The FBI warned criminals now use AI to create fake social profiles, cloned voices, and convincing videos that erase the old tells of bad grammar and a suspicious caller.
- Kurt Knutsson told Fox & Friends Weekend that families watched savings move before they knew an account had been touched, and that 'be careful' is no longer enough without barriers on the money.
Commentary
A Dayton dispatcher still checks a checking app on a cracked phone after a double and feels the heat in her face when the balance is gone. She did not save that overtime so a cloned voice could sound like her son.
Twenty-one billion. Twenty-six percent. Eight point six five. Eight hundred ninety-three million in AI complaints. The honest dad already paid the lane. The scam paid the new voice.
Look every working father who still keeps a savings book in a kitchen drawer in the eye and answer this: if a fake voice can empty a year of overtime, who still owns the next paycheck?
Comments
If a cloned voice can empty overtime, who still owns the next paycheck?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a wire so a wire transfer stayed a wire transfer. A cloned voice is not a son.
u/rule_first
· 4h
$8.65 billion investment fraud. 22,364 AI complaints. $893 million. Publish the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied banks still put a hold on a strange voice. A video is not a signature.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
IC3. FBI. Knutsson on Fox. File the four.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next transfer locked, not explained after the fact.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A savings book in a drawer is not a hobby. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
An AI voice is a second border around a checking account. The first callback should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed $21 billion, $8.65 billion, and 22,364. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Lock the alerts. Lock the logins. A cloned voice is not family.
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