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.

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 ...

Scams that target elderly people are far more common than you might expect. Thousands of seniors fall victim to financial fraud, government impersonation, romance scams, and tech support scams each ...

The WGAL News 8 On Your Side team has gathered the top 5 most common scams of 2025. Out of the thousands of calls and emails we get from our viewers about scams every year, here are the most popular.