80 Percent Of People Fall For Phishing Emails

In a survey staged by CBS News and Intel Security, 80 percent of more than 19,000 people who took a survey were fooled by fake email. Scammers use phishing emails to lure people into clicking on links that appear to be real, but are intended to trick users into entering sensitive personal data. Only three percent of people who took the survey had a perfect score. The U.S. ranked 27^th overall in ability to spot fake emails, with France, Sweden, Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain leading the pack.