Compromised legitimate account
Technique in the Exploiting Trust (E000) stage of the SC&MS ABCDEF lifecycle
Description
A scam sent from a hacked email or social media account to exploit existing trust.
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How to cite
Plain text:
Narang, S. S. (2026). Compromised legitimate account (E011), in SC&MS: Scam Classification & Mapping System (Version 0.3). https://scams.dev/techniques/E011/BibTeX:
@misc{scms03_e011,
author = {Narang, Satnam Singh},
title = {{E011 Compromised legitimate account}, in SC\&MS: Scam Classification \& Mapping System},
year = {2026},
version = {0.3},
url = {https://scams.dev/techniques/E011/},
note = {A taxonomy for classifying scam techniques}
}