The most serious email threat, by far, to you and your organization, is Identity Theft. There are so many names for these scams, so that should tell you how many different ways you can be taken advantage of. For some people, email is a new medium, but the same scams used in other media (including postal mail and faxes) continue to fool people. eWEEK reports that phishing scams are a $3 Billion per year industry, and every possible business model is being exploited.
Most people can identify most scams. However, it's not just someone from Nigeria trying to smuggle money out of the country and needing your help, or someone posing as your bank to get you to reveal passwords and personal information. People who are smarter than you and I have been taken in by some very sophisticated scams. Are you the one in six who will be affected? Are you prepared to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to get your personal or corporate identity back? How will your organization fare if it loses sensitive information?
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