Time taken to report a suspected phishing email in 2020

Published by Ani Petrosyan, Aug 17, 2023
According to data released in early 2021, it took 19 percent of users less than 30 seconds to raise an alarm upon receiving a suspected phishing email, while half of all users did this within the first 5 minutes on average.

Average time it takes a user to report a suspected phishing email in 2020

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Release date

February 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Number of respondents

25,000,000*

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*The Cofense Phishing Detection and Response platform leverages a global network of over 25 million people actively reporting suspected phish.

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