Computer-Based Social Engineering:

Hoax Letters: These are fake emails sending warnings about malware, virus and worms causing harm to the computers.

Chain letters: Asking people to forward emails or messages for money.

Spam Messages: These are unwanted irrelevant emails trying to gather information about users.

Instant Chat messengers: Gathering personal information from a single user by chatting with them.

Phishing: Creating a cloned fake website trying to gather sensitive information about users. It can be done by sending a fake email as though coming from an original website and then trying to collect confidential information.

Phishing can also be executed through fake mobile applications.

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