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Just as there is nothing “social” about social distancing, there is nothing social about social engineering.  We could easily call it anti-social engineering, since this is practiced by cyber-criminals and sociopaths to separate us from our personal information or our money.  A more common term would be scam or con.

These bad actors are masters at playing on our emotions.  When I teach a cybersecurity awareness course, I advise people to recognize ...