To accompany the launch of their new protect yourself website eBay Australia have released a survey claiming an amazing 93% of Australian Internet users don’t understand what phishing is and 72% engage in behaviour that increases their risk of falling victim to an online scam.
This is truly mind boggling given the amount of publicity that is given to these scams.
More depressingly, the press release claims that one in three Internet users believes that only dumb people fall for phishing attempt.
You can see why the smart scammers do so well with attitudes like this. We look at one of the good scams at our PC Rescue and Cranky Tech sites.
We’ll probably make this the main story for the next ABC Nightlife spot. It looks like we have a long way to go in educating people on Internet security.