This week’s topics
Social engineering and online scams
- How scammers trick people
- Protecting yourself and others
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Identify signs of phishing and social engineering.
Activity
Discuss real scam stories and how they could have been stopped.
Study materials
Further resources
- Foundations of Information Systems, 5.2: Social engineering · PDF · OpenStax Foundations of Information Systems (2025), 5.2 pages on social engineering and how to counter it, pp. 175–176 · for registered students
- College Success, 10.6: Avoiding scams · PDF · OpenStax College Success (2020, updated 2023), 10.6 on identity theft and scams that trick people into giving information, pp. 318–324 · for registered students
- Computer Security Fundamentals, ch. 1: Identifying Types of Threats · PDF · Easttom, Computer Security Fundamentals 4e, publisher sample, ch. 1 on fraud, malware and social-engineering attacks, pp. 7–15 · for registered students
- On the anatomy of social engineering attacks: a literature-based dissection of successful… · Open-access article · Bullée et al. (2018), Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. Dissects real social engineering attacks and the tricks used. · for registered students
- User characteristics that influence judgment of social engineering attacks in social netw… · Open-access article · Albladi & Weir (2018), Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences. Which users fall for scams on social networks, and why. · for registered students
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