Social Engineering for Home Buyers

Tyler Harris
CodeX
Published in
4 min readJun 24, 2022

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How scammers and legitimate companies use social engineering techniques to attempt to induce fear and siphon money from you.

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Purchasing a house is the single largest financial transaction in which the average person will ever take part [1]. There is a lot of money on the line. It is often a stressful process. Once closing takes place, you can take a big sigh of relief, right? Nope. The social engineers…

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Tyler Harris
CodeX
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I do consulting in and write about technology, IT certifications, programming, and business. Working on a PhD in IT.