Sweden tells citizens to be ruder to phone scammers as criminals take advantage of good manners
THE SO WHAT
When a government tells citizens to swear at scammers, it’s admitting behavioral defenses are now part of the security stack. Enterprises should assume social engineering will keep adapting faster than tooling—train for assertive refusal and verification, not just polite scripts.
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