Consumers open 1 in 6 Phishing Emails: Social Network users open the most

[mandy]

As many as 59 million phishing (define) e-mail messages are sent each day, and up to 10 million of those may be opened by consumers. A study released by Iconix finds one in four phishing messages are opened.

Divided into eight categories, spoofed or phished messages had open rates ranging from 1 in 4 to 1 in 10. Fake social-network-related messages maintained 24.9 percent open rates. Other categories, including as e-cards (17.1 percent); payment (16.2 percent); financial (15.5 percent); auction (14.7 percent); information (12.9 percent); retail (12.1 percent); and dating (9.5 percent), had lower open rates...

full article: http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3624876

[BellisimaJ.]

I have never opened so much as one. They are easy to spot, IMO. :