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Social engineering

There are all kinds of devious ways that unscrupulous scammers will use to get hold of unsuspecting marks’ data – whether it’s tricking them to install ransomware or some other kind of malware such as a keylogger, or having them visit a booby-trapped website and enter valuable credentials. Most people nowadays know better than to reply to an email purporting to come from a Nigerian prince who needs some help organising a wire transfer for his considerable inheritance. Indeed, most scammers no longer bother with these kinds of ruses; their game has been considerably upped.

They may play on local events, especially natural disasters. They may also send targeted email based on public information harvested from the target’s

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