The phishing victim profile: investigating how individual differences and social influence affect phishing susceptibility

• Main Author: Yeo, Yeo
• Other Authors: Olivia Choy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Phishing; Big-Five personality traits; Social engineering strategies; Risk-taking
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177335
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study aimed to construct a phishing victim profile based on differences in individual susceptibility due to a combination of dispositional factors and social engineering tactics. The individual differences investigated were demographic characteristics (i.e. age, gender and income) as well as th...