According to a survey conducted in December 2022, 51.6 percent of smartphone users in Japan neither knew the term nor the meaning of fake alerts. Fake alerts refer to a form of online crime in which a user is tricked into believing a false alert message, usually in an attempt to make him or her visit a malicious website or download malicious software.
Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022
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Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. (February 16, 2023). Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 13, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. "Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022." Chart. February 16, 2023. Statista. Accessed July 13, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. (2023). Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 13, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. "Share of Smartphone Users Who Know about Fake Alerts in Japan as of December 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 16 Feb 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/
Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan, Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/ (last visited July 13, 2024)
Share of smartphone users who know about fake alerts in Japan as of December 2022 [Graph], Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan, February 16, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228770/japan-awareness-of-fake-alerts-software-among-mobile-device-users/