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$3,050,000,000
$3,050,000,000 -- business email compromise losses for US Business Email Compromise victims (2025)
Reported Business Email Compromise losses totaled $3.05 billion across 24,768 complaints in the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report.
- Represents reported losses to the FBI IC3 across specific complaints, not total unmeasured global losses.
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$3,050,000,000
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Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2025
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Sample Size
24,768
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
FBI
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Tier A
https://dmarcguard.io/blog/dmarc-enforcement-gap/ ↗
Source Article
DMARC Adoption Rate 2026: The 12.8% Enforcement Gap | DMARCguard
A DMARC record is not the same as DMARC protection. The DMARC adoption rate across the web has climbed past 30%, yet most of those records do nothing to stop spoofed mail — they only watch it. That single distinction is the whole story of the 2026 enforcement gap.
We measured it ourselves. In Februa…
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FBI
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FBI Internet Crime Report
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Industrymarketing
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US Business Email Compromise victims: $3,050,000,000 business email compromise losses. Source: FBI (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bec-losses-2025
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