Australians reported more than 108,000 scams and financial losses of about $ 175 million in the Scamwatch Service of the National Center against Scam in the first half of 2025.
False websites, online ads and contact through social media criminals were the preferred methods of approaching people.
Scamwatch received 108,305 reports on fraud in the first six months of 2025, which has a 24% reduction in reports compared to the same period last year. While the total number of reports is reduced, damage reports have increased significantly.
The $ 174.8 million reported by Lost is a 26% increase compared to the first half of 2024, there was a 40.5% increase in losses on losses and this is higher for certain demographic groups: about 44% among people who speak English as a second language and 55.3% for the first language.
The losses of 2025 still represent a 39% reduction compared to the equivalent period in 2023. Financial losses in fraud culminated in 2022 and early 2023.
Losses in electronic fishing fraud were $ 19.5 million in 2025, partly to an increase in encryption fraud. 14.235 reports concerned losses in cryptographic fraud. These scams closely reflect banks’ tactics and have led to significant financial damage to victims.
The National Center Against Scam encourages consumers to be very careful when shopping online-in-law control the deals that look too good to be true and control the sites before they make a purchase.
Scamwatch received more than 6,300 reports of financial losses in purchasing fraud in the first half of 2025: the highest of any type of fraud. The scamwatch data shows that the scammers did this, creating convincing shopping platforms, advertising fraudulent products and attracting consumers with deals that look too good to have.