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Phishers are getting Phussy

I guess it was bound to happen. In a world where class and status have become such symbols of separation, you can now add phishing to your list of "must haves" or at least "must have done to me."

A new Gartner report finds that phishers are now showing a greater preference for the well-heeled and that individuals who earn more than $100,000 a year are likely to receive around 60% more phishing emails than the average user. They're also likley to lose an average of $4,362 per incident compared to the national average of $1,244.

And the phuture? One expert suggests the likelihood of phishing attacks so finely targeted that they will set up a single site to target just one high rolling victim at a time. With everything else going on in the world, phishers playing phavorites really phisses me off! Maybe the key to being less vulnerable to phishing, and to losing less money, is to make less money. Now there's a security solution I never thought about.

Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 04:42PM by Registered CommenterNeal O'Farrell in | CommentsPost a Comment

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