Reference Figures
A curated dataset of public United States statistics most relevant to understanding exposure to scams — not a raw compilation, but a curated selection verified by direct fetch from each primary source.
| Category | Figure | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parcel volumes | 6.9 billion packages handled by USPS in 2024 (approx. 20 million per day) | USPS / SellersCommerce | 2024-11 |
| Banking inclusion | 95.8% of US households are banked (4.2% unbanked) | FDIC | 2024-11 |
| Payment fraud | $12.5 billion in total fraud losses, with 6.5 million reports in 2024 | FTC | 2025-03 |
| Payment fraud | $5.8 billion in cryptocurrency investment fraud losses in 2024 (+17%) | FBI | 2025-03 |
| Data breaches | 3,322 data breaches with 278.8 million notifications in 2025 | Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Annual Report | 2026-01 |
| Employment | 7.09 million unemployed people in June 2026 (4.2% unemployment rate) | Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) | 2026-07 |
Each row refers to the Demonstration of the Mathematics of Manipulation pillar that uses it. Full details, query dates, and changelog: JSON.
Charts Kit — free to reuse
Visuals derived from Demonstrations 1-3, in pure HTML/CSS (direct copy-paste into a CMS or article), CC BY 4.0 license with credit and link.
USPS Parcel Volume, 2024
Source: USPS, Fiscal Year 2024 results — CC BY 4.0 Egidio, egidio.app/en/donnees/
Payment Fraud in the United States, 2024 (FTC)
Source: FTC Consumer Sentinel Network, FBI IC3 Report 2024 — CC BY 4.0 Egidio, egidio.app/en/donnees/
US Banking Inclusion Rate
Source: FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households — CC BY 4.0 Egidio, egidio.app/en/donnees/
Assumed technical limitation. This kit is delivered as embeddable HTML/CSS (proportional bars, sourced, credited) rather than static image files: we do not have image generation in this production pipeline today. The rendering is faithful and reusable as-is in a CMS.
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These figures describe your daily life
Each row of the dataset has its pedagogical Demonstration. Head to the Mathematics of Manipulation pillar to understand, not just consult.
Stable JSON, Dataset markup
Versioned URLs, schema.org Dataset, and a dedicated section in our llms.txt — designed to be cited by AIs and indexed by Google Dataset Search.
How to cite this dataset
Egidio, Threat Laboratory, 'The Reference Figures', v1.0, 2026, egidio.app/en/donnees/
Rigour Note. This dataset cleanly republishes the key figures already verified by direct fetch for the Demonstrations. No figures are recalculated or reinterpreted here — the source, date, and URL are authoritative.