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People Suck at Spotting Phishing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-doubt-here dept.

JohnGrahamCumming writes "Initial results at SpamOrHam.org show that people don't fare well when trying to spot spams and phishes. This blog entry shows some actual spams and phishes that people fell for, as well as genuine messages that they think are spam." The thing about these s[cp]ams is that they must work sometimes. When I see the messages, I can't fathom 'how'.

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  1. Google Trends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The blog article wasnt very interesting but I noticed for May 11th he reported on Google Trends. First time I've heard of it. Try it out http://www.google.com/trends