UNODC reports Asia-Pacific scam operations caused $88.3B to $114.1B in losses in 2025, with crime gangs using AI and crypto to scale fraud across

The losses from online scams, mostly investment fraud, are at least triple that from 2023, reflecting a ‘dramatic scaling’, the report says.

Networks that once operated within specific territories or illicit trades are increasingly expanding across multiple illegal markets while using shared services, said Delphine…