America is more vulnerable to certain risks than other countries, while being the leader in security for other areas. For instance, America suffers approximately 60% of the worldwide attempts of phishing. When phishing attempts are successful, Americans lose about $2,000 and businesses around $20,000. While we are among the highly exploited victims to phishing attacks, we are also one of the highest sources of where the phishing attacks have come from. This is most likely due to America being a first world country with a pseudo ego of being untouchable. Also, America has very relaxed laws and regulations regarding the internet and electronic means of using information. However, Europe passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which specifies deliberate laws that allow or disallow information to be used and under what specific circumstances. Unfortunately, there are countries with absolutely no regulation on internet usage or any enforcement of the laws that are set in place. Countries like India, Vietnam, and China have a myriad of botnets and phishing servers that are hosted. This is risky for the U.S. because the U.S. does not have control over those countries and unfortunately, there are no borders in the electronic and wireless grid. “Some of the top spam sending countries include China, Brazil, the United States, and Russia (Project Honey Pot, 2016).” (Cyber Crime Nation typologies: K – cybercrimejournal.com). I assess with high confidence that America is on this list due to the relaxed laws, autonomy of the internet, and the high computational power that the average American possesses allow unethical people to send massive amounts of spam. Scams like advance fee fraud in other countries like Nigeria end up scamming people to a point of kidnapping and being held for ransom.
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