Americans receive fraudulent or scam messages twice as much as other countries, according to new research. A poll of 10,500 adults from around the world found that the average American navigates an average of nine calls, nine emails and another seven text messages every single week, or about 100 scam encounters per month. Similarly, Brits navigate an average of 84 different scam attempts during a typical month. By comparison, those in Singapore only encounter three scam calls and texts per week as well as four emails, or a total of 40 scam attempts per month, while Australians fall somewhere in between, navigating about 52 spam messages per month. Those in the U.K. and the U.S. top the list of the most emails in their spam inboxes right now, both averaging more than 350, while Indonesians average less than half of that, about 154. More often than not, respondents either delete messages immediately (53%) or block the sender (52%) upon receiving a fraudulent message, though about a quarter of those in India (23%) and the United Arab Emirates (27%) will try to verify the address it was sent from, just to be sure. Conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Ping Identity, the survey took a realistic look at how people across the globe battle bots and sniff out scams in the age of AI.
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