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Companies invest a lot in technology, but tend to minimise the importance of a very vulnerable factor: the human being. This is the target of social engineering, a technique focused on acting on the ’weakest link in the company’. A widely used tool for these attacks is the Phishing Scam technique, which presents attractive promotions and themes, obtaining important information from its targets and thus causing serious damage and problems for companies and individuals.