State of Fraud 2026 · desenmascara.me

Investment fraud is the #1 scam on the internet

2,231 of the fraudulent sites we've caught push fake crypto, forex and trading schemes — mirroring the FBI's IC3 2025 report, where investment fraud is the #1 internet crime by losses.

139,261
sites analyzed
13,154
fraudulent · ~9.4%
#1
category: investment
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From desenmascara.me's corpus of 139,261 websites people asked us to verify. Figures update continuously.

Automated analysis

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Observed ranking

Most repeated brand-linked signals

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Investment

Top signal

Combining every investment-fraud facet we track makes it our #1 signal — mirroring the FBI IC3 2025 report, where investment fraud is the #1 internet crime by monetary losses ($8.6B of a record $20.9B).

Sub-classifications grouped here
Financial808Trade650Forex447Bitcoin292Crypto34
FBI IC3 2025 Annual Report →
2231
combined signals

Aggregate of investment-related signals. Each sub-classification also appears on its own in the ranking below.

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    808
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    763
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    650
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    624
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    447
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    437
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    292
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    145
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    130
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    130
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    127
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    92
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    91
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    62
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    57
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    56
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    55
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    48
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    40
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    38
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    35
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    34
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Reference this fraud-signals data

Figures are scoped to desenmascara.me's own corpus of analyzed websites and updated continuously. Please cite the source and access date.

Desenmascara.me. "Top Fraud Signals — Threat-Intelligence Ranking." Accessed July 6, 2026. https://desenmascara.me/top-signals

Methodology: automated website fraud analysis combining AI evaluation, heuristic signals, financial-regulator warnings and threat-intelligence feeds. Numbers reflect prevalence within our corpus. Data last updated Jul 6, 2026.

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