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Phishing, social engineering and physical intrusion

Email, text, phone call, QR code, fake bank details, deepfake or fake courier: how to spot social engineering, react, report it and protect your organisation.

Nestor
Presented byNestor
11 min readUpdated on 2 October 2026

What you will learn

  • Recognise phishing by email, text message, phone and QR code, and its targeted form
  • Understand CEO fraud, fake changes of bank details and what deepfakes add
  • Identify the psychological levers fraudsters pull
  • Spot attempts to get physically into your premises
  • Know how to react, where to report and how to organise your company’s defences

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