Introduction
Now that you have some knowledge about what Phishing is and what it can be used for you will do some investigation with your team into other phishing scams.
You and your team will read and analyze documentation about one of the biggest phishing scams in history. It just so happens that a very familiar company fell prey to such a scam.
You will be trying to identify and give names to the strategy or strategies that were employed in the given scenario.
Task
Part 1- Work with your team to read and understand what happened in the given situation that led to the phishing.
Part 2- You and your team must now find another situation where phishing occurred and identify what happened in that situation. Please make sure that the target in your article falls prey to a different type of phishing.
Part 3- Confer with another group and discuss the different means of phishing you have found in each of your groups. Create a document/presentation that shares a list of the various phishing techniques you have found.
Process
Part 1- Identify strategies that were used in the given situation to mislead the people/company involved.
Part 2- Find an online article that tells about another very prominent phishing situation and identify strategies that were used in that situation that were different from the first article
Part 3- Create a Google Document that lists the different strategies that are used to phish.
Evaluation
There will be a whole group discussion where the list of strategies from each group will be compared and a finalized class list of phishing strategies will be created.
Conclusion
Students will now be able to categorize phishing by the strategy employed.