Online scams: cases will decrease in 2025 but stolen amounts will increase

Cases of online scams are decreasing but stolen amounts are increasing. Research by the Fabi banking union on Postal Police data shows that in 2025 "the sums stolen through online scams and computer fraud reached 269 million euros, almost 40 million more than the 229.1 million in 2024, with an increase of 17.4% in just one year".

This is, Fabi notes, "an increase that confirms a particularly negative trend: from 2022 to 2025 the economic value of digital fraud grew by over 116 million euros, going from 152.9 million to 269.0 million, with a leap of 75.9% in four years".

The progression of the sums stolen is continuous: 152.9 million in 2022, 177.354 million in 2023, 229.12 million in 2024 and 269 million in 2025. Overall, over the four years, over 828 million euros were stolen through online scams and computer fraud. The data appears even more significant when compared with the trend in the number of cases. In 2025, there were 27,085 episodes, substantially stable compared to the 27,182 in 2024, also marking a slight decrease, equal to 0.4%. Since 2022, cases have increased overall by around 10%, while in the same period stolen money has grown by 75.9%. On the critical infrastructure front, the 2025 data show a reduction in cyber attacks and widespread alerts, a different dynamic compared to the strong growth in economic damage recorded for online scams and cyber fraud. There were 9,250 attacks, compared to 11,887 in 2024: 2,637 fewer episodes in a year, equal to a decrease of 22.2%.