Social Engineering

Social Engineering is the hacking technique to gather secret information that people must not let others know such as the security number of credit cards, a password or e-mail address of some Internet-shopping sites, phone numbers, and zip code. (Friends and family may know your phone numbers and zip code, though.) The hackers use several techniques to get those information.

The typical example of social engineering is phishing. It's the social engineering technique that persuades people to send their passwords of banks, credit cards, or sites. Hackers pretend to be bank owners or site owners and send e-mail to customers. The e-mail looks like this and this. If you get something like these, you must not tell your personal information and account!! It's so dangerous!

In recent years pay-money fraud, 振り込め詐欺 (furikome-sagi) in Japanese, has become popular in Japan. It is a kind of social engineering that frauds call someone or send letters to strangers. The typical phone talking is like this, "Hey, mom!! It's me! It's me!! I'm in big trouble! I ran over a woman and I have to pay 1,000,000 yen!! Please deposit those money into her bank account immediately!!! The bank account is ..."
It seems silly, but many people are deceived into paying money in strangers' bank account.

I am going to study abroad, so I think I should tell the information mentioned in here to my parents.