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Stowe Boyd is a well-known media subversive, and an internationally recognized authority on real-time, collaborative and social technologies. His new blog is Message.

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June 28, 2005

Phishing costs reach $1 billion in the US

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Posted by Arieanna Foley

Messaging Pipeline reports that phishing has cost the US nearly $1 billion - and this is only direct costs associated with lost funds from banking schemes. It does not include any of the costs in combatting phishing, hard costs to the banks, or any of the soft costs from all this hassle. The rate of incidence has gone up significantly this last year.

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