State of Spam in 2012
For our client, we ran a very interesting online campaign at www.vircom.com. In our online survey we asked “average Joes” how they react to spam, email security and phishing threats.
Analysis of the survey reveals that half of the respondents use online mail services such as Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail. Most use such email services alongside work/school related email accounts. Nearly three quarters of the respondents use open public WiFi, exposing themselves to hackers looking to steal emails. A quarter or the respondents don’t carefully examine emails from banks and financial institutions. Such emails are often a target of phishing threats trying to steal banking credentials.



