FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 7, 2026

CONTACT: Jarice Thompson, [email protected]

Statement of Mark Hays, AFR and Demand Progress Associate Director, Crypto and Fintech, on new FBI Annual Report on Internet Financial Crime Losses to Crypto and other Scams:

Yesterday, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its annual Internet Crime Report, which analyses complaints received from online financial crime survivors each year to determine the scope and scale of such criminal activity and who is most impacted by it. 

The FBI’s report confirms something too many survivors of financial crime already know – we’re living in a golden age of online financial fraud driven by crypto.

The FBI…