US secondhand/thrift store market

Worldwide phishing attacks and American thrift-store sales, both climbing. Two completely unrelated growth stories, one criminal and one virtuous, sharing the same eleven-year ascent. Different intentions, same outline.

Global phishing attacks grew sharply across this window as bot-driven scams scaled and AI-assisted social engineering matured. US thrift and secondhand revenue roughly doubled in the same window as Gen Z secondhand culture, Depop, and the eco-label tailwind expanded the category. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same eleven years scaled both an automated-fraud volume and a sustainable-shopping category. Different ends of the moral spectrum, same era of compounding.

Both industries scaled. The decade was generous to whoever could find a market.