Phishing & Pharming

According to the computer identity theft statistics gathered from the survey, more than 30% of Internet users polled admitted to being tricked by a phishing scheme.

Gartner also reports that...

 

• 57 million Americans are sure that they have received email attacks from phishers

  • 11 million have clicked on the link in the email

  • 1.78 million (3 percent) recall disclosing sensitive financial or personal information

  • Of those, 980,000 were actually scammed

  • There is a yearly loss of 1.2 billion dollars