A Brief History of Phishing, and Other Forms of Social Engineering
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Social engineering attacks have a very long history, though the Internet has made it easier to launch these attacks en masse, according to Sean McNee at DomainTools. McNee points to an advance-fee scam from 1924, in which a crook sent a letter pretending to be trapped in a Spanish debtors prison.
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