How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails

MDMap: Assisting Users in Identifying Phishing Emails

Email-based online phishing is one of the key security threats that greatly deteriorate the trustworthiness of the Internet. Although many spam filters have been developed and deployed, a non-negligible number of phishing emails still sneak into users’ inboxes each day. Phishing emails often contain suspicious information that separate them from the legitimate ones; however, average non-expert ...

Detecting Phishing Emails the Natural Language Way

Phishing causes billions of dollars in damage every year and poses a serious threat to the Internet economy. Email is still the most commonly used medium to launch phishing attacks [1]. In this paper, we present a comprehensive natural language based scheme to detect phishing emails using features that are invariant and fundamentally characterize phishing. Our scheme utilizes all the informatio...

The Impact of Users’ Characteristics on Their Ability to Detect Phishing Emails

Detection Phishing Emails Using Features Decisive Values

Phishing emails are messages designed to fool the recipient into handing over personal information, such as login names, passwords, credit card numbers, account credentials, social security numbers etc. Fraudulent emails harm their victims through loss of funds and identity theft. They also hurt Internet business, because people lose their trust in Internet transactions for fear that they will ...

Managing Phishing Emails: A Scenario-Based Experiment

In this paper, the authors report on a collaborative research project that investigates how people respond to phishing emails compared to genuine emails and what factors contribute to this behaviour. A scenario-based, role-play experiment was conducted by administering a web-based questionnaire via a series of seminars facilitated by a member of the research team. This questionnaire asked each ...