CertiK report: Cryptocurrency ATM scams will cost $330 million in 2025, with AI technology exacerbating crime escalation.

Web3 security company CertiK released the "Skynet Crypto ATM Fraud Report," which shows that losses from such scams reached $330 million in 2025, a year-on-year increase of approximately 33%, making it one of the fastest-growing categories of financial crime in the United States. Currently, there are approximately 45,000 cryptocurrency ATMs worldwide, 78% of which are located in the United States. The report points out that fraud gangs are upgrading their methods using technologies such as AI voice cloning and deepfakes; in 2025, the profitability of AI-driven fraud was approximately 4.5 times that of traditional methods. Data shows that in 2025, 86% of the total losses from this type of fraud in the United States came from people over 60 years old, making the elderly the primary target of ATM fraud. Furthermore, criminal networks are employing a "break-down" strategy to induce a large number of small transactions to evade regulation. CertiK warns that the currently reported losses are only the tip of the iceberg, and the industrialized operations of transnational criminal organizations will continue to escalate the threat.