IBMs research has shown “”That is a huge, precipitous decline in the amount of phishing,” they stated that the reasons for this were because people were smarting up to phishing emails and also security which picks up on most of the phishing sites/emails. What the article fails to mention is even though email phishing is on the decline- (of course it is, who uses email that much anymore any way),  scammers are also wising up and what we are seeing is not a decrease in phishing but rather a more complex set of phishing done across other sites such as social sites.  

“Breach Security’s most recent Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) report found that attacks directed to social networks accounted for 19 percent of all hacking incidents between January and July this year. Social media attacks, the bi-annual report said, were the largest growing in that period. “http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?&entry_id=45679

Overall attacks increased by 30 % compared to the first half of 2008 with 26 % of those which resulted in stolen personal information. So I don’t think it’s quite time to get relaxed on scams of this type rather be more on guard because the evolved phishing is not going to be some dodgy email in a poor imitation of a bank but rather a “friend” who’s asking you to help them out.