Social Engineering & Scams
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Set it as homework or classwork and every answer is marked as pupils go, with feedback on what they got wrong. The scores go straight into your mark book, so you can see who needs help before the next lesson.
- 14 questions
- 35 marks
- about 45 minutes
- marked instantly
Question types: multiple choice, short answer, true or false, matching, fill the gap.
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What is social engineering?
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About this resource
Understand how scammers trick people rather than machines — phishing, smishing, pretexting, shouldering and blagging — why humans are the weak link, and how to spot and safely report a scam using its red flags.
16 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook — Ten Seconds
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Social Engineering — What It Is and What It Is Not
- Hinge Check — Which One Is Social Engineering?
- Why Humans Are the Weak Link
- Anatomy of a Phishing Email
- Task 1 (guided) — Is It Social Engineering?
- Task 2 (guided) — Name That Scam
- Common Scams
- The Red Flags
- Task 3 (semi-guided) — Spot the Scam Sign
Unit bundleCyber Security
