There's a very simple reason why we all get so many fraudulent messages, and that is because social engineering works! (Photo: Shutterstock)
We all have intimate familiarity with phishing emails and social engineering attacks because they are now so commonplace. Rarely does a day go by that we don't get a fraudulent phone call or find numerous "phishy" emails.
Social engineering attacks such as phishing are likely to succeed because human nature includes an "assumption of truth" that allows us to live in organized societies. Without an innate assumption of veracity in our interactions with other humans, all groups of people would quickly collapse into chaos.
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