Australians don’t trust mobile banking

A survey conducted lately shows that Australian people are afraid of using mobile phones as a tool for electronic transactions. The survey was made to order of Unisys by the Newspoll.

There were 1,201 adult respondents questioned about how they look at mobile banking services. Nearly half of them consider mobile phones and PDAs to be weakly protected from frauds if used to pay bills, make purchases or banking online.

Just 5 percent of respondents believe that banking through mobile phones and PDAs is quite secure. 78 percent of them refuse to implement money transactions that way.

Thus a conclusion may be drawn that Australians need more evidence on security and reliability of mobile shopping and banking.

12 percent of the surveyed say they are thinking over the possibility of using mobile services to pay their bills or make other transactions whereas 7 percent of the respondents state that they are already using mobile devices for payment.

And the remnant 3 percent of the surveyed say they are not able to use mobile phones for payment on the score of absence of the latter.