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What is Security Information (Infosec)

Chapter 22
Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News, and Misinformation Online
The practice of preventing unauthorized persons from gaining access, use, disclosure, disruption or destruction of information. It is generally designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer system data from those with malicious intentions.
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“Attention Beneficiary…!”: Assessing Types and Features of Scam Emails
Innocent E. Chiluwa (Covenant University, Nigeria), Ebikaboere Ovia (Covenant University, Nigeria), and Emmanuel Uba (Covenant University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0.ch022
Abstract
This chapter identifies the various types and features of scam emails as a genre of computer-mediated communication. The types identified include money transfer, investment scam, inheritance claim, next-of-kin claim, charity donation scam, foreign aid scam, foreign lottery scam and email account lottery scam. The study also describes the linguistic and discourse features of these types of scam emails and argues that the more knowledge of online financial crimes that is created and disseminated, the more people are informed and empowered to protect themselves against them. This study hopes to contribute significantly to literature on phishing attacks and online financial crimes.
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