AI-Powered Crypto Scams Drive Record $17B Losses in 2025
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**Executive summary:** Chainalysis and related reporting show that AI-enabled cryptocurrency scams exploded in 2025, driving an estimated $17 billion in losses and using sophisticated tactics—deepfakes, voice cloning, automated scam-assembly lines, fake IDs and professional money laundering—to scale romance scams, fraudulent giveaways and fake storefronts; scam farms and forced-labor operations in Southeast Asia are implicated, while law enforcement made notable seizures but struggles to keep pace.
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