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Top 3 Social Engineering Scams
Think about hackers breaking into accounts. If you think they need top-notch computer skills, you would be wrong. These days, instead of requiring skills behind a keyboard, hackers generally rely on strategy…specifically a strategy called social engineering. This means that hackers don’t have to be technical, but they DO have to be clever and crafty because they are essentially taking advantage of people and “tricking” them into giving information.
There are four main ways that hackers use social engineering:
Phishing – where hackers use email tricks to get account information Vishing – similar to phishing, but through voice over the phone Impersonation – the act of getting information in person Smishing – getting account info through text messages Phishing accounts for 77 percent of all social engineering incidents, according to Social Engineer, but in vishing attacks, alone, businesses lose, on average, $43,000 per account.
Here are the top scams that all consumers and businesses should know about as we move into 2017:
Scam Using the IRS
Starting from the holiday season stretching through the end of tax season, there are scams involving the IRS. One such scam uses caller ID to change the true number of the caller and replaces it with a number from ... more

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