Research of Social Engineering Attacks in Telecommunications Fraud

DOI

10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.477How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Telecommunications fraud; Social engineering; Human weakness; Psychological factors

Abstract

Telecommunications fraud is spreading rapidly in some areas of China, which caused huge losses to the people's property. This paper analyzed the weakness and psychological factors of the victims, and revealed the nature of telecom fraud, i.e., the criminal’s skilled use of social engineering for fraud, harm, and other dangerous acts, so as to obtain their own interests. In order to better combat and prevent telecom fraud, countermeasures from all angles are given. The government and law enforcement need to put more effort in the anti telecom fraud campaign and propaganda work and education programs must promptly follow up. And ordinary people need to overcome their own weakness as timid, greedy, curiosity, blind trust, and develop safety awareness, enhance privacy protection.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Guangxuan Chen
AU  - Guomin Zhou
AU  - Zhoujie Mao
AU  - Qiang Liu
AU  - Ziwan Zheng
AU  - Guangxiao Chen
AU  - Panke Qin
PY  - 2015/11
DA  - 2015/11
TI  - Research of Social Engineering Attacks in Telecommunications Fraud
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1869
EP  - 1872
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.477
DO  - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.477
ID  - Chen2015/11
ER  -