According to a semi-annual report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), Chinese internet users are behind 85 per cent of fake websites.

The group reviewed 22,679 malicious domain registrations and found that over 19,000 were registered to servers based in China. This is in addition to nearly 60,000 websites that were hacked in the first half of 2014 and then used to acquire people's details and credit card information while pretending to offer real goods or services.

As for the phishers' targets, Apple headed the list for the first time being used in 18 per cent of all attacks, beating out perennial favorite PayPal with just 14 per cent.