USEC: Lecture 9: Phishing and Fraud (2026)

Lecture Slides

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Materials

Reading for the lecture:

• Dhamija, R., Tygar, J.D. and Hearst, M., 2006, April. Why phishing works. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (pp. 581-590).
• Stanford Fraud Taxonomy https://longevity.stanford.edu/financial-fraud-research-center/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Full-Taxonomy-report.pdf 

Take-home:

• Chen, X., Doublet, S., Sergeeva, A., Lenzini, G., Koenig, V. and Distler, V., 2024. What Motivates and Discourages Employees in Phishing Interventions: An Exploration of {Expectancy-Value} Theory. In Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024) (pp. 487-506).
• BBC - 'Vinted scammer reeled in my 15-year-old daughter'