Americans filed 181,565 complaints tied to crypto fraud last year, with total reported losses reaching $11.366 billion, a 22% jump from the prior year. Americans aged 60 and older filed 44,555 of those complaints and reported $4.4 billion in combined losses, the highest of any age group tracked by the FBI. Older Americans are disproportionately targeted because they tend to hold more savings, are less familiar with how crypto transactions work, and are more likely to trust authority figures, real or fabricated. The $17 billion global pictureBlockchain analytics firm Chainalysis puts global crypto scam losses in 2025 at approximately $17 billion. Protecting older Americans from financial fraud is one of the few genuinely bipartisan causes in Washington.