I like the quiz but there is no data on participants. My whole point in
finding who is more susceptible to phishing was to see if perhaps the
online banking problem would solve itself after some years - as more
and more young, internet-savvy users start using these services.
As much as I like Kevin's idea, it is difficult to recall something
that users and corporations like just because of "security". As long as
the profits from sending better looking emails are higher than the
losses, corporations will be willing to take it.
Just my $0.02.
Rishi
On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Wall, Kevin wrote:
Mike Andrews writes...
I remember doing a quiz on phishing some time ago. After much
digging,
here's a link to the quiz (version 2)
http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/quiztest.html
Sorry, it doesn't give any results of the survey - perhaps someone
could
email the company and ask about the results, especially which ones
people
didn't get.
Of course, the "quiz" is pretty much useless. There are some obvious
phishing attempts, but the few that look (are?) legitimate, one can't
really tell because all they give you is an image, so you can't really
see what the links are pointing to or do a 'view source', etc.
Of course, the point should be one should ALWAYS go to the the
web site directly to type in the appropriate URL (if they know
what it is; otherwise look up their site on a search engine
and then type it in).
But IMHO, I think that HTML e-mail should be outlawed, period. That
alone
might go a long way to eliminating a lot of phishing schemes,
especially
the ones that rely on bugs in the MUA's HTML rendering engine to entice
the victims.
-kevin wall
