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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. Re:People suck, period. by FireFury03 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As someone said, think of how stupid the average person is, and remember half the people are even stupid than that.

    Wow, you must really be stupid... maybe you need to read up on how "averages" (usually the mean) work. If I told you that people on average had 1.999 legs would you assume that 50% of people had less than that number?

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