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Surfers fall to phishers more than ever
By Jerome Saiz, Thu, December 20th, 2007
According to a recent study by Gartner, 3,3% of respondents who said they received phishing emails admitted to have lost money to the scam.
The Gartner study, while small in size (4500 adults), shows a disturbing trend : 3,3% of adults who acknowledged to receiving phishing emails said they lost money to the scam. A total of $3,2 billion was lost in 2007 to phishing. The average loss per incident declined from $1,244 in 2006 to $886.
Phishing victims accounted for 2,3% in 2006, down from 2,9% in 2005.
The Gartner study does not make a guess as why phishing was so much more successful in 2007.
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