58% of American consumers aren’t aware of the existence of spam.
[the other kind]
Ars Technica quotes a recent study by Microsoft that found that 58% of American consumers didn’t even know “online threats” existed. The study also found that of the ones that did know about said threats, 17% of them had fallen for some sort of Internet scam—and 81% of those people said it was their fault for opening suspicious emails or sending information to strange companies because they had a nice logo.
consumerist
Stumble it!
This entry was posted
on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am and is filed under main, scientists say....
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
58% of American consumers aren’t aware of the existence of spam.
[the other kind]
Ars Technica quotes a recent study by Microsoft that found that 58% of American consumers didn’t even know “online threats” existed. The study also found that of the ones that did know about said threats, 17% of them had fallen for some sort of Internet scam—and 81% of those people said it was their fault for opening suspicious emails or sending information to strange companies because they had a nice logo.
consumerist
Stumble it!
This entry was posted
on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 12:02 am and is filed under main, scientists say....
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.