Phishing Statistics
During the last three months of 2004, phishing in general took on a more orga-
nized direction. Phishers have refined their attacks, both in e-mail and malware,
and have begun to target specific secondary and tertiary targets. In the upcoming
chapters we discuss in detail the following points; we highlight them here from
the perspective of statistics and the evolutionary development of phishing:
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Phishers are refining their e-mail techniques.Their e-mails are much
more effective than regular spam. A single mass mailing of 100,000 e-
mails may have a receive rate as high as 10 percent and collect as much
as 1 percent in victims.
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Phishers ...