According to recent survey data, Africans lose money to scammers almost twice as frequently as people from other nations, and the financial consequences in places like South Africa are severe This article explores gasa calculated scammers. . The "Global State of Scams 2025 Report," published in October by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), was based on brief online surveys completed by 46,000 adults across 42 nations.

57% of citizens reported having been the victim of a scam in the previous 12 months, and 23% reported losing money to one. In contrast, GASA published a report on February 11 that was exclusively centered on the information gathered from South Africa.

Although 77% of survey participants fell for scams in the year prior to their surveys, and those 77% fell for an average of not just one, but 2.2 compromises, 98% of respondents said they take at least one proactive step to determine whether an offer they receive is genuine or fraudulent. All those concessions eventually mount up. Based on its survey data, GASA calculated that scammers made approximately $2.3 billion over a 12-month period by defrauding South Africans more than 17.5 million times, even though each scam earned an average of $130.

Related: Untidy Reporting Distorts the Picture, But Vulnerabilities Increase ## There Is No Law Enforcement Only slightly more than 70% of South Africans who fell victim to scams informed their payment service providers, or the business that developed the app they were using. On the continent, those rates are the lowest.