In 2022, PayPal was the most frequently impersonated payment service in financial phishing attacks worldwide. Roughly 84 percent of the attacks impersonated this service. MasterCard International was the second-most often exploited payment system in attacks aiming at luring users into giving their information, with nearly four percent of the cases.
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Atlas VPN. (March 29, 2023). Payment services most frequently impersonated in financial phishing attacks worldwide in 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 29, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319957/payment-services-impersonated-in-global-phishing-attacks/
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