Fishing for phishers. Improving Internet users' sensitivity to visual deception cues to prevent electronic fraud

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Highlights:

• Spoof websites usually present typographical deviations from the legitimate version due to technical reasons.

• Training Internet users to detect those deviations may protect them against scams.

• Sensitivity to typographic changes increased after easy-to-hard discriminative training.

• This training is a promising anti-phishing approach that may complement others.

摘要

•Spoof websites usually present typographical deviations from the legitimate version due to technical reasons.•Training Internet users to detect those deviations may protect them against scams.•Sensitivity to typographic changes increased after easy-to-hard discriminative training.•This training is a promising anti-phishing approach that may complement others.

论文关键词:Phishing,Internet security,Easy-to-hard effect,Human-computer interaction,Discrimination learning,Visual discrimination

论文评审过程:Received 4 March 2016, Revised 12 December 2016, Accepted 18 December 2016, Available online 19 December 2016, Version of Record 3 January 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.044