Have you heard about targeted Social engineering?
Targeted social engineering is one of the strategies hackers and scammers use to drain millions of dollars from people and here is how it is done.
The biggest we have heard happened a few months ago, about $330M worth of $BTC was stolen with social engineering.
What this hackers or scammers do is to look for specific individuals, such as developers, influencers, investors or managers and give them a call or email, trying to get them reveal their confidential information
These guys often use
- Emails
- Fake Calls
- Impersonate trusted people and even
- Fake Customer Support
They are usually good at emotional manipulation and they will try to use it as advantage to get your details