One of the easiest ways to collect your personal information is to trick you into just handing it over, called phishing. Phishing attacks use 'spoofed' emails, fraudulent websites, and even phony customer service calls to fool you into giving out your personal information, such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers, etc. Phishing is a type of social engineering attack and is often coupled with other methods to gain information about a target.
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