Source: Crime Survey for England and Wales. Office of National Statistics. 2017 data.

Cost	Fraud Involving Financial Loss (%)	Cumulative Loss (%)
Less than £20	9.0	9.0
£20 – £99	30.0	39.0
£100 – £249	18.8	57.9
£250 – £499	14.5	72.3
£500 – £999	10.9	83.2
£1000 – £2,499	9.6	92.8
£2,500 – £4,999	4.2	97.0
£5,000 – £9,999	1.7	98.7
£10,000 – £19,999	0.8	99.4
£20,000 and above	0.6	100.0

You can see from the figures that there were modest losses (less than £100) for 39 % of victims, but at the other extreme, some people lost more than £20,000.

The higher losses are most commonly from frauds involving house purchase and investment fraud.

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