fraudulent email

Phishing is thriving on the ignorance of the Internet users as half of the victims respond to the fraudulent emails within an hour of the receipt of scam messages, according to a study by transaction security firm Trusteer. Going further, the statistics shows that within 5 hours 80% of victims have responded with the figure raising up to 90% within the first 10 hours of an attack.

The statistics stresses the urgency for the fight against fraudulent websites that attempt to hoodwink the unwary into handing over online banking credentials or similar sensitive information.