National Security Public finance, money & integrity

Online scam industry

Industrial-scale fraud operations run from compounds with trafficked workers and AI tools are extracting tens of billions a year from victims worldwide, outpacing enforcement and corrupting the states that host them.

Rank: 33; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 2.7×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 267; 100 is the typical trend
Change: 0%; WoW
Volatility: ±4%; Shifting

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

Latin America & Caribbean

East Asia

North America

South Asia

22×

#26

8.1×

#13

4.6×

#58

4.5×

#54

4.3×

#44

2.8×

#84

1.9×

#112

1.7×

#96

1.6×

#99

1.3×

#133

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

4.3×

#44

2.9×

#62

2.6×

#72

2.2×

#52

1.8×

#60

1.8×

#89

1.6×

#99

1.5×

#109

1.5×

#118

1.3×

#119

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

81×

80×

27×

23×

#19

18×

#36

16×

#20

14×

12×

#31

10×

#24

10×

#30

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 49.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Online scam industry, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.