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Expert Social Engineers at work - Green314 - 07-17-2020
RE: Expert Social Engineers at work - mothered - 07-17-2020
I've posted a short version of this a couple of years ago.
The art of human manipulation Is certainly a very powerful tool.
RE: Expert Social Engineers at work - Green314 - 07-17-2020
This morning I searched on ResearchGate (for those who don't know this website is like a repository for general scientific research or topic in deep, these articles are mainly written by original Post doctor, professors, expert, student and so on, everything interesting/useful is findable here, always).
So I was saying, this morning I searched on it something related to the worlds of SE regard refund and similar techniques that we discuss here in the forum. I was expecting to find some statistics about this emergent phenomena, or something related to this business, well, I didn't find anything. For them social engineering is still something related to true hackers, there is nothing (yet) about what we discuss here. Some companies know what we do, I have read many articles about people getting catch doing SE, so they know, but it seems that this world is still quite hidden.
Well, better for us.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvy9q9/this-scam-lets-you-have-your-xbox-and-refund-it-too
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/7/17437802/amazon-returns-scheme-1-million-sentenced-six-years-prison
https://www.newsweek.com/22-year-old-allegedly-scammed-amazon-out-370k-return-shipments-filled-dirt-1452452
https://turbofuture.com/internet/How-To-Scam-People-On-Ebay
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/05/riding-the-state-unemployment-fraud-wave/
https://www.webretailer.com/b/return-fraud-amazon-ebay/
RE: Expert Social Engineers at work - mothered - 07-18-2020
(07-17-2020, 05:30 PM)green314 Wrote: this morning I searched on it something related to the worlds of SE regard refund and similar techniques that we discuss here in the forum. I was expecting to find some statistics about this emergent phenomena, or something related to this business, well, I didn't find anything. For them social engineering is still something related to true hackers, there is nothing (yet) about what we discuss [url=https://sinister.ly/Forum-Social-The majority of online sources define social engineering as (not verbatim): "Obtaining confidential Information" and/or "Infecting computers with a virus to lure victims Into opening links to Infected sites". This barely scratches the surface on what SEing entails.
In my very own words, social engineering Is: "Manipulating a person or entity Into performing an action that they're not supposed to do".
RE: Expert Social Engineers at work - Green314 - 07-18-2020
Actually I found something about SEing, I suggest the read, it's quite interest.
https://news.cardnotpresent.com/news/refunding-fraud-the-industrialization-of-friendly-fraud