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Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ experiences with and views of online scams and attacks. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,397 adults from April 14 to 20, 2025.

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Americans lost over $16 billion to online scams in 2024 — a 33% increase from the year prior. Generative AI is making scams harder to detect, more believable, and more frequent, says Consumer ...

Fraud is becoming even bigger business as it gets more sophisticated and technologically involved. This is about spam emails, but also spam texts and spam voice messages manipulated by artificial ...

From phishing emails to fake job offers, scammers don’t wait for midterms—new students are being targeted from day one. Here's how to stay one step ahead. I review privacy tools like hardware security ...