»More than 25% are tricked by phishing emails«
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 Fake e-mails fool users 28 percent of the time, study finds
... Anti-spam firm MailFrontier Inc. showed 1000 consumers examples of so-called "phishing" e-mail as well as legitimate e-mail from companies such as eBay and PayPal. About 28 percent of the time, the consumers incorrectly identified the phishing messages as legitimate . What's more, the legitimate e-mails were often dismissed as potential fraud . An e-mail message from the Federal Trade Commission was dismissed as a fraud by 50 percent of the consumers. "We knew we'd fool a few people, but we're pretty surprised by 28 percent," said Anne Bonaparte, CEO of MailFrontier. "A number of (the phishing e-mails used in the study) have been around for a while." posted by knn |
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| in-my-opinion.orgTechnology, Computers, Science, InternetComputers and InternetMore than 25% are tricked by phishing emails |
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 This kind of thing comes as no surprise to me. 
Stupid people, how many times do they need telling? Then they whinge like mad to the press when someone rips them off I once visited a bank (yes the kind that has all your money) and the staff had their usernames and passwords written on sticky labels, stuck to their screens 'cos they couldn't remember them and it saved time. 
Dumb Computer Users - They deserve all they get 
I see it as a kind of I.T. evolution, survival of the fittest and all that. posted by Marl64 |
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 ..from banks have got very convincing now, they look very official and use some nice gfx. these things are aimed at n00b computer users who don't know any better and don't have a clue of the dangers in the internet, poor sods. Meanwhile Joe in Dixons who sold them these top whack pc's that they don't bloody need is raking in the commissions  posted by Crossfade |
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I've worked in I.T support for years and one thing that holds true is that the majority of "novice" users simply aren't interested. "It's cool to be online" is as much as they know or care
I've been to the same user a half a dozen times with the same fault. Each time I explain how they can prevent it happening again and each time they manage to forget. Yet when they lose important data because of their own disinterest in the subject, they are looking for somebody to blame. "Hey that Engineer keeps coming back to fix this, he's obviously not fixing it properly" I mean, C'mon how many times do you need to see "non system disk or disk error" and have an engineer tell you "take out the floppy disk and press a key" before it stops being a computer fault? Two? Three? Ten? Get off the Internet you muppets and leave the bandwidth for those of us who appreciate it. Go play txting with your little phones and don't try e-mailing until you understand the risks
Guess I'm just sick of "the Internet" being used as a scape goat for society's failings. It's just a medium, it can't be Evil. Try keeping the Rapists, Paedophiles and Con artists in Jail and stop blaming chat rooms and "easy access". posted by Marl64 |
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 My brother got 419'ed once, and he started to fuck around with the guy who sent it. posted by northern_james |
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Quote: My brother got 419'ed once 
What is that? posted by knn |
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knn: Quote: My brother got 419'ed once
What is that? It's the famous "Nigerian lottery" type of spam...you know, the one that says you've won the lottery, and you just need to provide your account number, etc., to claim your winnings, or a plea for help from a father of a dying baby that desparetely needs a new heart, but he can't afford it...etc, etc. posted by northern_james |
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...on the news a while back. He'd "won the Canadian Lottery" without entering
Aparantly the Canadian Lottery enters foreign nationals into the game without them knowing (or paying) for no adequately explained reason. I don't think the ticket buying canadians would be too happy about this. So he won several Million without having to spend a dime, however they needed his bank or credit card details to charge him for the Transfer of funds to the U.K. And he wasn't at all suspicious? He's now out of pocket £20,000 and has spent everyday bellyaching about the fact that it's not fair that they target poor retired people with these scams. The media, of course, had a field day and called for action from politicians to prevent this kind of "abuse". Once again the Internet was blamed and there were calls for tougher control. Dumb Bastard. What was he thinking? Probably "Wahoo, I'm rich" and that's the extent of his reasoning. He never thought to suggest that they deduct the transfer fee from the winnings? Greed. That was this man's undoing, plain and simple. I'm, not suggesting they are right to rip people off, but the number of brain cells going 'round is not making it hard for them. posted by Marl64 |
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