Cyber criminals can plan numerous ways to get what they need from you. Influencing people into carrying out specific actions or giving away secret data is known as Social Engineering. And this is an extensive form of misuse. Why? If you can get access to any data you need just by misleading someone, why waste time forming a highly sophisticated and technical hack?

So, how precisely do cybercriminals perform social engineering tricks or lies?

Emails and Advertisements – These generally grab attention with their head lines or body text.

Phishing – Cyber hackers pose as genuine entities (a reputed bank or finance institution etc.) in order to gather confidential data via emails.

Hoaxes – Typically recognized as the 419 scam, hoaxes are something that cyber hackers use to extract sensitive or money details. In this case, a cyber hacker would hack into accounts and message the person’s friends claiming to be trapped in an overseas country with no money. Other tricks/lies might comprise a question that attracts the user’s interest and then directs them to a bogus login screen. Hackers may be searching for your account data in order to send spam or to pull off a 419 scam.

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Some of the hoaxes also comprise cashing on a panic attack or a latest endemic or natural disaster. For instance, fake Japan Tsunami posts that came up everywhere on Facebook and Twitter after the disaster. The objective is to cheat people into submitting money for relief efforts. People who end up donating to these websites often see their credit card data and money stolen. The typical ‘Your account has been deactivated or blocked’ or ‘You have won a lottery’ message also comes into this category.

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Shoulder Surfing – Looking over someone’s shoulder and pen down Logins or ATM PINs.

Stalking – “Sneakers” use the ‘I’m late and in a hurry. Please let me in.’ phrase to form urgency and or physically follow someone into a restricted access area.

Businesses either small or big and individuals, almost everyone is a victim of these scams and social engineering tricks. Keep yourself updated and alert of such attacks and risks. One of the best ways to keep away from online threat is to install good security software that detects, warns, and blocks infected websites or malware execution. Eset is reliable software that can help user to block such kind of attacks.

The Eset Technical Support is always available to help the users in case of any issue regarding installation, configuration and updating of Eset Antivirus. Technicians are available 24*7 to help users and are highly skilled. Technicians will take the remote access of the user device in order to fix the issue.