> and one in five (22%) experiencing a fraud attempt every single week
That seems low. I guess they mean phone calls only.
I get -no exaggeration- several hundred spam mails a day (and these are the ones that made it past the first line defense). I also get 10 or more scam texts.
Some of the phising emails that I get, are frighteningly realistic (but invariably seem to have at least one speling eror in them).
If folks live in a normal suburban development, they are highly unlikely to get several hundred crooks, knocking on their door, every day, but being on the Internet, means exactly that.
The crooks only need to land you once, you have to have a perfect record, avoiding them.
> I get -no exaggeration- several hundred spam mails a day
I've seen no legit spam e-mail in years, on my very old, very used, "forums and other logins I don't care about", 2005 gmail address. What provider are you using?
I have an OG address that was registered about five minutes after Steve introduced the service.
Network Solutions sold it to spammers, and the rest is history.
Also, a couple other of my emails (and phone numbers) are associated with businesses, so are sort of public record (not really, but everyone finds out, anyway).
Back in the days, the email address to register a .com domain was automatically public via WHOIS. Every half competent spammer didn’t even need to pay Network Solutions to get those.
> and one in five (22%) experiencing a fraud attempt every single week
That seems low. I guess they mean phone calls only.
I get -no exaggeration- several hundred spam mails a day (and these are the ones that made it past the first line defense). I also get 10 or more scam texts.
Some of the phising emails that I get, are frighteningly realistic (but invariably seem to have at least one speling eror in them).
If folks live in a normal suburban development, they are highly unlikely to get several hundred crooks, knocking on their door, every day, but being on the Internet, means exactly that.
The crooks only need to land you once, you have to have a perfect record, avoiding them.