Some people also create fake versions of popular websites to dupe netizens into handing over money or private details.

Despite having the world's largest number of Web users, people on the Chinese mainland are relatively unaware about online security.

According to the China Internet Network Information Center, almost 80 million of the country's538 million netizens are primary, middle or high school students.

About the broadcaster:

Emily Cheng is an editor at China Daily. She was born in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in Media, English Literature and Politics. She has worked in the media industry since starting university and this is the third time she has settled abroad - she interned with a magazine in Hong Kong 2007 and studied at the University of Leeds in 2009.

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