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.

Falling victim to a scam is terrible, but being targeted a second time by fraudsters posing as law enforcement promising to help you recover is even worse. Scammers pretending to be from the FBI's ...

Phone scams have become a growing concern worldwide, with fraudsters using ever-evolving methods to deceive their victims. In Russia, this issue has reached a tipping point, prompting drastic action ...