Re:A fraudster got $12M out of a Canadian university
by r00fus on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:14PM
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> I don't think any amount of education can reliably prevent this sort of fraud.
The (possibly remedial) education isn't to prevent the fraud, it's to make your population more resistant to it.
At some point in the far future if it's part of basic education courses, then we may create herd inoculation effect where phishing fraud may become unprofitable enough to further depress likelihood (like highway banditry of days yore).
Email will never go away - it will always be some part of the payment process even if it's just remittance. It's too ubiquitous.
The (possibly remedial) education isn't to prevent the fraud, it's to make your population more resistant to it.
At some point in the far future if it's part of basic education courses, then we may create herd inoculation effect where phishing fraud may become unprofitable enough to further depress likelihood (like highway banditry of days yore).
Email will never go away - it will always be some part of the payment process even if it's just remittance. It's too ubiquitous.