Understanding Social Engineering Based Scams

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jakobsson, Markus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Data Encryption.

This book describes trends in email scams and offers tools and techniques to identify such trends. It also describes automated countermeasures based on an understanding of the type of persuasive methods used by scammers. It reviews both consumer-facing scams and enterprise scams, describing in-depth...

Table of Contents:

• Scams and Targeting
• Identifying Scams and Trends
• Predicting Trends
• Persuasion in Scams
• Traditional Countermeasures to Unwanted Email
• Obfuscation in Spam and Scam
• Semantic Analytics of Messages
• Case Study: Sales Scams
• Case Study: Rental Scams
• Case Study: Romance Scams
• Case Study: Business Email Compromise
• Conclusion and Next Steps.