People are most likely to fall for a phishing scam when it involves a fake message warning that their account has been hacked, a new report by KnowBe4 shows. In phishing simulations and actual phishing campaigns, the email headlines that were most successful in getting victim’s to click on malicious links, were:
- “Password Check Required Immediately” (43%)
- “A Delivery Attempt was made” (9%)
- “Deactivation of [[email]] in Process.” (9%)
- “New food trucks coming to [[company_name]]” (8%)
- “Updated Employee Benefits” (7%)
- “Revised Vacation & Sick Time Policy” (6%)
- “New Organizational Changes” (4%)
- “Staff Review 2018” (4%)
Read more: Most Effective Phishing Tactic Is to Make People Think They’ve Been Hacked
