97% of the 2,210 respondents between 18 and 65 years old, said they had bought goods or contracted services online on occasion. When asked if they knew about the phenomenon of Internet phishing, a majority (73%) answered yes and 27% answered no.
In addition, a large majority (98%) stated that they had ever received a message asking for their credit card details. These messages were sent by imitators from various institutions (financial, fundamentally) (65%) or even by strangers (35%). Worse, 57% of respondents stated that they had responded with potentially sensitive information to those fraudulent requests.
Subsequently, those who fell into the trap understood that they had been victims of fraud: 65% realized because they could not access their emails (whose data had been requested along with credit card details), 43% realized that some amounts of money had disappeared from their bank accounts, and 32% were alerted by banks about the transactions of cybercriminals.
"The pessimistic fact is that if you do a quick and easy search on the Internet, you can easily find credit card credentials of already affected users. On the other hand, there are a large number of cybercriminals who sell this type of information for different amounts of money," explains Jocelyn Otero Ovalle, Marketing Director of BitDefender Spain.
Source: DiarioTI
