A new report reveals that we are five times less likely to report an instance of cybercrime than if it were a real-life crime.
These are the revealing findings of a study into our attitudes to the growing menace of online fraud. It paints a picture of a nation of consumers doing nothing to prevent or report it and even contributing to its acceptance by our own questionable online conduct.
In the UK over 40 per cent of us have had computer viruses or malware appear on our computers while one in ten people have been the victim of an online credit card scam.
According to new research commissioned by Norton, only 19 per cent of the UK public would report instances of online fraud, in contrast to over 90 per cent who would call the police if our house was burgled.
It also appears that this indifference has crept into our own online behaviour with one in 6 people confessing to having used their significant other's password to access their email or social networking account.
Furthermore, 7.6 per cent have created a fake online identity, with a further 7.1 per cent admitting to having tried to guess someone else's online password.
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