Sizable shares also say they have personally experienced such scams. Overall, 36% of U.S. adults say they’ve ever bought an item online that either never arrived (31%) or was counterfeit (17%) and was ...

Steve Wozniak, who helped introduce new technologies by inventing the earliest Apple computers, is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He ...

Online scammers continue to dupe a majority of American adults as they infiltrate virtual calendars and security systems meant to defend you against the poaching of personal information. A recent ...

Online scammers continue to dupe a majority of American adults as they infiltrate virtual calendars and security systems meant to defend you against the poaching of personal information. A recent ...

Myanmar’s military government has begun broadcasting extensive video on state television of its crackdown on online scam ...

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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Fulton County has created the Avoid Cyber Threats (A.C.T) Training campaign to help older adults recognize scams and avoid becoming victims. The free program is available online or at senior centers ...