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A young Australian police officer has spoken of her astonishment at the sheer volume of "bad stuff" online.
Jessica Negus, a teenager who joined the police a few months ago, told the Sydney Morning Herald that there is a considerable level of crime taking place through the internet.
"It's not just the people online pretending to be other people. There's phishing and there's fraud and there's lots of it," she explained.
The newspaper notes that one of the issues of phishing attacks, where criminals send emails purporting to be from a legitimate organisation in an attempt to trick sensitive information out of them, is the amount that one criminal can send.
It states that a fraudster can send massive numbers of emails, meaning that just a small proportion of recipients need to be fooled for them to see a return.
Australia's Computer Crime Research Centre warns that falling victim to phishing activities can lead to identity theft.
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