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Anatomy of and Enterprise Social Media Cyber Attack: Customer Scams

September 23, 2015

Customer scams are nothing new. Fraudsters and criminals have leveraged an organization’s clout and popularity to target customers for ages. But customer scams have taken on a new and dangerous form on social networks, where scammers have unprecedented ability to imitate brands and victimize consumers, all while avoiding punishment. But what do typical customer scams look like? How can consumers identify customer scams? How do organizations tackled the growing risk of customer scams on social media?

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Anatomy of and Enterprise Social Media Cyber Attack: Customer Scams