{"id":704,"date":"2012-02-23T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:13:39","slug":"best-places-in-the-us-to-get-scammed-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/2012\/02\/best-places-in-the-us-to-get-scammed-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Best places in the US to get Scammed Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A report by Symantec<\/strong> (the somewhat self-interested PC Security company) has produced a report that lists the top ten places in the US to be scammed online.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s capital, Washington DC, is top of the cybercrime rankings, mainly due to its high saturation of smartphone usage (second in the country), but the large number of politicos, lobbyists [and all their money] must be a significant factor too.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not all bad news, the study helpfully tells us that the top rated cities for risk of cybercrime are not necessarily the top rated cities for actual infection.<\/p>\n<p>Risk elements that make this list are smartphone usage, widespread Wi-Fi hotspots and heavy Internet throughput which is presumably what brought Sacramento into the top ten for the first time. Sacramento apparently scored above average across all cybercrime risk categories.<\/p>\n<p>1. Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n2. Seattle<br \/>\n3. San Francisco<br \/>\n4. Atlanta<br \/>\n5. Boston<br \/>\n6. Denver<br \/>\n7. Minneapolis<br \/>\n8. Sacramento, Calif.<br \/>\n9. Raleigh, N.C.<br \/>\n10. Austin, Texas<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the list are cities such as Tulsa, Detroit and El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>Symantec\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conclusions are to beware of using Wi-Fi hotspots for sensitive transactions and to use complex, unguessable passwords for all your online transactions. (and that does not include \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcabc123\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcqwerty\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpassword\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Mister!).<\/p>\n<p>The full report, with complete ranking of the top 50 cities can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/about\/news\/release\/article.jsp?prid=20120215_01\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by Symantec (the somewhat self-interested PC Security company) has produced a report that lists the top ten places in the US to be scammed online. The nation&#8217;s capital, Washington DC, is top of the cybercrime rankings, mainly due to its high saturation of smartphone usage (second in the country), but the large number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,20,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scamdex.com\/ScamBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}