According to a survey made by Gartner, it seems that phishing still exists heavily, and unfortunately, some people still fall for it. Replace the “some people” with 3.6 million, and that is the number of persons that got literally phished this year.
Interestingly enough, the most spoofed sites were 2 of the biggest money related makers in the web - eBay and PayPal. In case you didn’t know, spoofing is the act of creating a site (or email) with the intention of misleading readers that the website has been created by a different person or organisation – wiki.
I thought that at this time there weren’t many people falling for the phishers, but 3.6 million is truly a high number. Really, it is so easy, and evident, to check if an email/website is spoofed, that even monkeys can probably do it right.
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