Summary

In this chapter, we understood the importance of detecting a social engineering attack and how people can securely avoid such threats. We also provided a comprehensive overview of the most common social engineering attacks on social media and how you can avoid them.

Additionally, you learned about the latest (and the most clever) social engineering attack, the crypto scam, which deceives the user into thinking that they are about to get access to the crypto account of a careless user, while in reality, they are about to get scammed.

In the next chapter, we’ll review the most common types of scams and how to avoid them.