He offered his own experience as a cautionary tale from "someone who spends a good deal of his professional life warning others about the perils of cybercrime," yet who still came close to falling for a scam and "barely caught himself in time".
Would you fall for a scam?
Worried that you'll fall for a scam during the summer or any other time of the year?
Will Americans continue to fall for the same scam?
Mobile users are three times more likely to fall for these scams than PC users, according to statistics on phishing recently gathered by one security company, Trusteer.
The main reason phishing persists is simple: People continue to fall for the scams.
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Intelligence and experience offers no protection against scammers, says Modic. "If it did, then better educated people and older people would be less likely to fall for scams.
Vacationers have always been targets for smart, enterprising crooks, and the farther you get from home, the easier it is to fall for popular vacation scams like the dropped baby, the fake fight, and the I-need-five-euros-to-replace-my-lost-train-ticket.
