PHISHING & SCAMS
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Lesson Overview
This lesson plan focuses on educating 15-year-old students about the tactics used in cyberattacks, namely urgency, intimidation, and love bombing, which make teenagers increasingly vulnerable to phishing and scams as they spend more time online.
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A tactic used by scammers to create a sense of urgency in their victims to take immediate action without thinking it through. The message is designed to cause fear and panic within the recipient.
Intimidation is a scare tactic used by cybercriminals to create fear or a sense of threat in the victim to coerce them into clicking on a link, providing personal information, or making a payment.
Scammers may quickly profess their love and affection for their victims, using language that is romantic and overly sentimental. They often love bomb in romance scams to quickly gain the trust and affection of their victims through excessive flattery and declarations of love.
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