Bitdefender has released its 2026 Global Scam Intelligence Report, a 12-month analysis of the global scam landscape built from trillions of URLs, billions of messages, and live ad ecosystem telemetry — finding that 14% of consumers fell victim to a scam in the past year and that finance-themed fraud now dominates every major communication channel. The report is the most data-dense scam analysis Bitdefender has published to date. Its telemetry infrastructure spans call honeypots, direct consumer submissions, and live ad ecosystem monitoring, capturing campaigns in motion rather than reconstructing them post-incident.