9% of students respond to e-mails asking for information
Fact recorded on: July 23, 2006. Categories: Fraud.
In CompUSA TechInsights survey of college students nationwide, nearly 88% of respondents said they keep personal files on their computers. 41%% of the students surveyed weren’t sure or didn’t know what phishing was. 9% admitted they had responded to e-mails asking for information, such as bank account numbers and passwords. 21% of respondents confessed they had given or had been tempted to give sensitive personal information over the Internet when they weren’t confident in the security of the Web site.
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