It is the Year Of Our Lord two thousand and fourteen , but somehow , nearly one-half of all people on this electronic mail - infested landfill we call ‘ land ’ are still falling for simple phishing cozenage .
The statscome courtesy of a Google study , which looked into the success rate of ‘ manual highjacking ’ emails , which try and trick exploiter into hold fake ( but real - looking ) websites their username and password . The scam is pretty unproblematic : you get an email , with a radio link to a internet site .
When you come home through ( something that a frankly insane 45 % of mass seemingly do ) , you ’re gift with a realistic - looking impersonation of a login Sir Frederick Handley Page , where you insert all your sensitive information for villainous hacker to gobble up . Here , people seem a minuscule less gullible : only 14 % of visitors to the fake pages in reality state their information , meaning that the overall success charge per unit is only around 5 % . Given the scurf at which e-mail scams ordinarily operate on , though , that routine is still crusade for concern .
From there , Google says that hacker run promptly : 20 % of compromised accounts are accessed within a half - hour , and often the hacker will change the password , then use your legitimate electronic mail account statement to spam your speech leaning .
Google ’s tip for obviate scammage are exactly what you ’d expect : do n’t open suspicious links , and if you ’re in doubt , visit the website via a URL typed into your connection web internet browser , rather than follow the link . Oh , andset up 2 - factor authenticationand a recovery phone act while you ’re at it . [ GoogleviaHuffington Post ]
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