UMass student Katherine Zhang and Assistant Professor Pubali Datta presented “International Students and Scams: At Risk Abroad” at the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, with collaborators at Florida International University and Purdue. The study examines how international students in the U.S. are targeted by online scams, why fear of legal or visa consequences can keep them from reporting, and how existing prevention advice often fails this group. Paper