) However, it is
of value to brie?¬‚y summarize here what makes phishing so
special.
It??™s not dif?¬?cult to envision how a keylogging scheme may be
applied outside of the computer world. People have overheard
conversations or looked at texts over the shoulder for centuries.
That said, how likely is it that phishing would happen in the
of?¬‚ine world? The idea is almost comical. I may receive a
There are many
different phishing
schemes
The strategies that
work in the of?¬‚ine
world might not
apply in the online
world
20 The Problem
credible fake letter from a bank, sure, but changing the road
signs for leading me to a fake branch is much more challenging,
as much as building a credible fake branch of?¬?ce. (A few years
ago in Naples there was a case in which a fake ATM was overlapped
on the real one, but the scam didn??™t enjoy a very long
life.) If I have already gone to that branch in the past, it is borderline
impossible to fool me. Naturally, some isolated cases
might ?¬?t the de?¬?nition, if only we stretch it a little. Good examples
are social-engineering attacks in which the scammer calls
his victim by phone and, pretending to be a bank clerk, attempts
to obtain identity data.
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