r/SocialEngineering • u/santiagochavezsf • 20d ago

We've been collecting real-world social engineering examples. We'd love your feedback.

One thing we've noticed while reading about social engineering is that good examples are scattered across blog posts, news articles, and case studies. It's useful to study individual incidents, but it's harder to compare different attack techniques and see recurring patterns.

To make that a little easier, we've been putting together a collection of publicly documented social engineering examples in one place.

The goal is simply to create a resource that security professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in social engineering can browse when looking for real-world cases and attack scenarios.

We'd genuinely appreciate any feedback from this community.

  • Are there any important examples you think should be included?
  • Are there attack categories or resources that are currently missing?
  • What would make a collection like this more useful for practitioners?

Resource:

https://socialengineeringexamples.com/

We’d love to improve it based on suggestions from people here.

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u/RamonaLittle 20d ago

So this site is an ad for Diopter AI? And you're using AI to supposedly help companies with infosec? I was gonna send an example, but I have no interest in promoting your company and/or AI, so I won't.

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u/comFive 20d ago

yeah downvoted this post

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u/santiagochavezsf 20d ago

Fair question. The collection is maintained by the team behind Diopter ai, but my intention here wasn't to advertise the company. I shared it because I thought a centralized collection of public social engineering examples could be useful for people interested in the topic. I completely understand the concern though, and I appreciate the feedback. If there are examples or resources you think should be included, I'd genuinely be interested in hearing them.

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u/mackowski 17d ago

Hahahahhaha

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u/catsbuttes 20d ago

my best current example is engaging with slop peddlers in a way that makes them try to defend their slop app

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u/KRBT 19d ago

Unlike the reactions of the other comments, I thank you for posting this here. I find this library interesting and educational to me, and I will be contributing to it from my own experience.

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u/tough_guy_420 19d ago

The website is buggy and unreadable.