Phone users being bombarded by scamming 'onslaught,' survey finds


More than half of people say they're being hit with attempted scams every day in a dispiriting "onslaught" that is making it tougher to tell fake messages from genuine, research shows. — Photo: Bernd Diekjobst/dpa

LOS ANGELES: Owning a mobile phone is increasingly troublesome and irritating as dangerous scams and spam become ever more prevalent, according to new survey results from Malwarebytes.

The internet security company found more than half the people asked complain they are hit with attempted scams every day in a dispiriting "onslaught" that is making it tougher to tell fake messages from genuine and to which one in four phone users appear to have surrendered.

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