Barnum's Law Aids Cybercrime

"Optimistic and kind-natured people are more likely to fall victim to cybercrime than those who are greedy and materialistic, according to an organisation set up to help victims of e-crime.

"E-Victims says that cybercrime is a growing problem because criminals are getting more sophisticated and manipulative.

"...Online dating scams, where a criminal deceives victims by feigning an emotional bond before asking for money, are common. ...this is because although people often suspect that they're being scammed, they don't really believe it because they've invested time and effort into this individual online.

"And in some cases, particularly with young people, victims aren't used to encountering people with malicious intent, and are therefore easily taken in by official-looking logos and job titles that scammers use in their emails..."

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Young workers' use of social networking sites concerns IT staffs

"Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are being targeted so often by cybercrooks and other mischief-makers that half of the information-technology specialists surveyed recently by Intel expressed concern about workers under 30, who disproportionately use such sites.

"Of the 200 corporate and government IT professionals in the United States and Canada who were surveyed, 13 percent said they regard so-called Generation Y employees as "a major security concern," and 37 percent tagged them as "somewhat of a security concern." The biggest worry they mentioned was the tendency of many Gen Yers to frequent social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace."

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