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Brian Chin's Weblog surveys the Web to spot what people are talking about ...
July 28, 2004Phishy and foulHow well can you spot fraudulent e-mail that's designed to steal your personal information? In a test of 1,000 consumers run by anti-spam firm MailFrontier Inc., "phishing" e-mail messages were mistaken for the real thing about 28 percent of the time, MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan reports. Perhaps more worrying: a legitimate warning about fraud was dismissed as a fake by 50 percent of those tested. You can check out your own skill at sniffing out "phishy" e-mail with an online test MailFrontier set up. Category: When you have a minutePosted by Brian Chin at July 28, 2004 12:07 PM Comments
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