An evaluation of users’ tips effectiveness for Phishing websites detection

Recently, Phishing attacks have become a serious problem for end-users, online banking and e-commerce websites. Many anti-Phishing approaches have been proposed to detect and prevent Phishing. One of the approaches is the anti-Phishing tips published by many governmental and private organizations to help users detect and prevent the attacks by themselves. There are many different tips. This paper examines the effectiveness of most common userspsila tips for detecting Phishing websites. A novel effectiveness criteria is proposed and used to examine each single tip and rank it based on its effectiveness score. The paper tries to find fewer anti-Phishing tips that users can focus on to detect Phishing attacks.