ResultsTo what extent do members of the Dutch general public express fear of online financial crime?Figure 1provides a histogram of the scores on our dependent variable: fear of online financial crime. Onaverage, members of the Dutch general public report an intermediate level of fear of 2.88 on the scale,ranging from 1 to 5, used for the current study. Underlying this scale variable are different scores on theseparate variables on fear. Approximately 21 percent of the respondents (strongly) agree with the item onbeing afraid that products purchased online will not be delivered; 25 percent of the respondents (strongly)agree that they worry their credit card number can be traced via the Internet; in addition, 31 percent indicatethey are afraid their PC will be hacked/accessed; finally, 28 percent (strongly) agree they worry theirbanking credentials will become available to others through online banking.