Deepfake Fraud Tops $2 Billion and the Response Is a Shrug

The institutional failure this figure exposes is not that deepfake fraud exists at scale — it is that the fraud conversation has decoupled from any expectation of remedy. When , deepfake-enabled schemes were already understood as a significant component. Regulatory response has remained behind the threat at every threshold crossed. The communities absorbing this week's Surfshark figure have watched the numbers climb without a corresponding shift in enforcement posture, and they have drawn the rational conclusion: the numbers will keep…