When it comes to protecting yourself from online scams, education is your best defense. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe. The most common online scams Think you could never fall for one of ...

From phishing emails to fake job offers, scammers don’t wait for midterms—new students are being targeted from day one.

SHREVEPORT, La. - A new report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) paints a sobering picture of just how much damage cyber criminals are doing across the country. In 2024, more than ...

AI is also creating entirely new categories of scams like synthetic identity fraud, which uses AI-generated faces, ...

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.

Nearly three-quarters of Americans have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, according to a new Pew Research Center report. That might even be underselling the extent of the problem, said C ...

Every year, millions of Americans go online to search for jobs using websites like LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor.