The Trust Foundation Understanding trust issues in the digital era.

“For example, according to Goodmail’s research, 55% of e-mail users have definitely received phishing attempts and another 41% may have received them; 87% of e-mail users are concerned about phishing attempts and online identity theft, while 61% are nervous or reluctant about opening e-mails. According to TRUSTe, 75% of e-mail and Internet users don’t like giving out their credit card numbers or personal information online. According to Symantec, there were 25,000 phishing sites as of December 2007, representing a tenfold increase in less than three years. Hundreds of millions have been lost to fake foreign lotteries and to Nigerian scams (Compare Messaging Security products).”

Do you still think that you won’t the next target of online identity fraud?