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News => Internet Scams & Hoaxes => Phishing => Topic started by: Bob Gould on April 13, 2005, 09:35:11 AM
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One senator wants to put you to the test.
Over the last 12 months, the phishing phenomenon has taken America by storm. A report published in May 2004 concluded that a staggering 57 million consumers in the US had received a phishing email the previous year.
More astoundingly, phishing accounted for $2.4bn in fraud - an average of $1,200 per victim according to results published by research company Gartner - which made it the fastest growing form of consumer theft in the US.
Senator Dean Florez has set out to prove how difficult it is to tell real from fake. Senator Florez is not the only one at Capitol Hill trying to raise awareness of phishing.
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