McAfee Report: 82 Percent Of Indians Fall Prey For Fake Messages And Scams (image @ Pixabay)
McAfee, a leading provider of the cybersecurity solutions, has recently conducted their first ever global scam message study aiming to understand the impact of scam messages and the influence of the Artificial Intelligence in the propagation of the scam messages to consumers worldwide. According to the report, over 7000 adults from seven different countries took part in the study. The countries also included India. A whopping 82 percent of Indians have fallen prey for the fake messages and scams.
The study suggests that Indians receive an average of 12 fake messages per day and they spend an around 1.8 hours per week trying to identify these fraudulent messages. According to the study, the most common types of scams that have been reported are fake job offer or notifications, which constitute to 64 percent and around 52 percentage of the fake messages were reported to be of bank alerts, as said by Economic Times.
The survey that was conducted in India suggest that 60 percent of the respondents find it hard to identify the scam messages from real messages. The use of Artificial Intelligence by the hackers has made the situation extremely challenging as the AI makes the scam messages appear more believable.
49 percentage of the individuals claimed that the scam messages has become highly convincing as some even contain personal information and thus making them harder to differentiate from truth.
The study says that around 90 percentage of the individuals participated from India receive fake messages through e-mails and as text messages. 84 percentage of these individuals come across these fake messages on social media and around 82 percentage admitted to clicking the fake messages.
Around 37 percent of the participated individuals from India said that they lost their trust in digital communications after the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Many of the country’s population are unaware of the measures to be followed to stay clear of falling prey to scams. Around 28 percent ignore the scam emails while another 28 percent block those who send the messages. Another 31 percent report the messages. But a shocking amount of 88 percentage of Indians trust AI to detect the fraudulent messages.
