"smells Phishy?": An educational game about online phishing scams

Malak Baslyman, Sonia Chiasson

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Abstract

We propose Smells Phishy?, a board game that contributes to raising users' awareness of online phishing scams. We designed and developed the board game and conducted user testing with 21 participants. The results showed that after playing the game, participants had better understanding of phishing scams and learnt how to better protect themselves. Participants enjoyed playing the game and said that it was a fun and exciting experience. The game increased knowledge and awareness, and encouraged discussion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2016
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages91-101
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781509029228
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jun 2016
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameeCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime
Volume2016-June
ISSN (Print)2159-1237
ISSN (Electronic)2159-1245

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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