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Scroll through this quick website to learn how to keep yourself protected against phishing and other forms of Social Engineering.
Social engineering is a broad category of attack, but is one that almost anyone who uses the internet will come across. It's defined as the use of deception to manipulate people into disclosing sensitive information, and can range from high school pranks to massive international data breaches. One of the most common versions of social engineering is phishing, and you're likely to encounter it in your student email account. What's phishing? Here's some clues:
As this this poster says, a very common scam is an email saying someone is looking for an assistant or some other similar, easy work. They'll usually also say they pay a high weekly salary to you just for doing basic office work from your personal computer. In reality they just want your personal information and eventually want your bank account information.
In this day and age more an more companies are selling your data without your knowledge, and hackers want to steal it. Thankfully there are some easy ways to help keep your data more private, which means you'll get less spam!