Over the past nine months, the monthly volume of phishing e-mails has risen nearly ten-fold to 3.1 billion worldwide in April, said Brightmail, a San Francisco-based e-mail filtering firm.
LONDON (Reuters) -- Fraudulent e-mails designed to dupe Internet users out of their credit card details or bank information topped the three billion mark last month, according to one of the largest spam e-mail filtering companies.