[Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser causing confusion

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Thomas Dalton, 28/11/2012 15:54:
> On 28 November 2012 14:41, Charles Andrès<charles.andres at wikimedia.ch>  wrote:
>> In fact we haven't seen the link before but we had the same in Switzerland, it seems that in a way people complain about the traditional banners that are to intrusive, but in the other hand they are more suspicious and have doubt about banners that are not the same than previous year!
>
> This happens every year - there are always people concerned that we've
> been hacked, or that they have a virus, or that there is some kind of
> phishing attack going on.

I've not kept statistics, but it seems fair to suspect that we've never 
had so many people thinking it phishing; see the Polish 
security-specialized website publishing a special report on our banners 
which was mentioned previously on this list.

Nemo