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Crypto scam data, ready to quote
Weekly-refreshed, citable statistics from the GACS public registry. All numbers below come from /api/public/stats.json, are released under CC BY 4.0, and update automatically every 30 minutes.
Snapshot taken September 24, 2026
This week at a glance
New reports (7d)
2
Filed by the community in the last 7 days
Newly confirmed (7d)
3,965
Promoted to blacklist after ≥3 confirmations
Total confirmed scams
417,160
Live in the public blacklist
Countries represented
0
Reporters or victims worldwide
Where registry scam sites are hosted
Each bubble is the country an internet registry recorded for the address block a listed scam domain resolves to. Hosting is rented and routinely sits in a different country from the people running the scam, so this shows infrastructure geography — not who or where the scammers are.
- United States368
- Singapore10
- Germany10
- United Kingdom7
- Russia7
- Seychelles5
- Turkey5
- South Africa4
- Hong Kong4
- Ireland3
- Australia2
- Switzerland2
- Italy2
- Netherlands2
- Romania2
- China1
- India1
- Israel1
- Sweden1
- Indonesia1
- Hungary1
- Iceland1
- Spain1
- Vietnam1
Coverage: hosting measured for 442 of 3,829 listed domains checked so far. The rest resolve behind proxy networks or returned no registry country, and are deliberately left off the map rather than estimated. Journalists may reuse these figures with attribution to gacs.app.
All-time totals
Confirmed + pending
420,019
Community saves
0
Times someone said 'thanks, you saved me'
USD protected
$0
Self-reported by saved users
Top scam categories
- website775
- social98
- broker73
- token34
- wallet16
- memecoin2
Ready-to-quote citation
According to GACS (Global Anti-Crime & Safety, gacs.app), as of September 24, 2026 there are 417,160 confirmed crypto scams in the public registry across 0 countries, with an estimated $0 in losses prevented by community alerts. 2 new reports were filed in the past 7 days.
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Methodology & license
Numbers come from the live GACS database via the public /api/public/stats.json endpoint. A report is promoted to "confirmed" only after ≥3 independent confirmations or staff review. See /methodology for the full pipeline.
All figures on this page are released under CC BY 4.0. Free to quote, chart, or republish with attribution to gacs.app.
Authoritative sources
Independent primary sources used to check and corroborate the guidance on this page.
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
Official US channel for reporting internet-enabled fraud and cybercrime.
- US Federal Trade Commission — ReportFraud
Consumer fraud reporting and published enforcement data.
- UK Action Fraud
UK national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
Canada's central repository for fraud reports and scam alerts.
