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Rising global digital fraud losses and account takeover volume across businesses and consumers

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Digital fraud losses are climbing worldwide, putting business revenue and consumer accounts at greater risk. Companies now average 7.7% of annual revenue in fraud losses, while global account takeover volume rose 21% from H1 2024 to H1 2025. In the US, losses reached 9.8% of revenue, and account takeover became the most damaging fraud type. Consumer surveys across 18 countries show 48% were targeted in February-May 2025, underscoring a broad and persistent fraud wave.

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Rising synthetic identity fraud against U.S. lenders

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First: 19.09.2025 17:18 Last: 19.09.2025 17:18 Sources 1

About this happening: **Synthetic identity fraud** is **rising across U.S. lenders**, especially in **auto finance**, increasing loss exposure for credit providers and raising the bar for identity veri...

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  1. 08.10.2025 15:00 2 articles · 7mo ago

    TransUnion publishes H2 2025 fraud trends report

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    TransUnion’s H2 2025 Update: Top Fraud Trends says digital fraud is costing companies worldwide an average of 7.7% of annual revenue, with combined losses of $534bn over the past year. The report also says US companies averaged 9.8% of revenue in losses, account takeover became the most damaging fraud type in the US, global account takeover volume rose 21% between H1 2024 and H1 2025, and 48% of consumers across 18 countries were targeted by fraud attempts between February and May 2025.

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