1、 FOR RELEASE JULY 31,2025 Online Scams and Attacks in America Today 73%of U.S.adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack,and these are common across age groups.Most get scam calls,texts and emails at least weekly BY Jeffrey Gottfried,Eugenie Park and Monica Anderson FOR MEDIA OR OTHE
2、R INQUIRIES:Jeffrey Gottfried,Associate Director,Research Monica Anderson,Director,Internet and Technology Research Haley Nolan,Communications Manager 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center,July 2025,“Online Scams and Attacks in America Today”1 PEW RESEARCH CENTER
3、www.pewresearch.org About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan,nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues,attitudes and trends shaping the world.It does not take policy positions.The Center conducts public opinion polling,demographic research,computational soc
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5、w Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts,its primary funder.Pew Research Center 2025 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans experiences with and views of online scams and attacks.For this analys
6、is,we surveyed 9,397 adults from April 14 to 20,2025.Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Centers American Trends Panel(ATP),a group of people recruited through national,random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly.This kind of recruitment gi