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Unrealistic Promises and Urgent Wording Differently Affect Suspicion of Phishing and Legitimate Emails

peer-reviewed experimental study Tornblad, Armstrong, Jones, and Siami Namin, Proceedings of the HFES 65th International Annual Meeting, 2021

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“Participants were most suspicious of phishing emails with a large 5000 dollar amount versus 5 or 50 dollars, and more suspicious of gain-framed than loss-framed emails; urgency did not significantly predict suspicion for phishing emails.”

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