Bryan receives an e-mail from a group posing as a police officers association and asking for bank account information. This is an example of

Phishing is a scam in which someone sends a deceptive email or message pretending to be trustworthy to trick a person into revealing sensitive information. Here, the group impersonates a police officers association and asks Bryan for bank account information, so this is phishing. Social engineering is the broader category of manipulating people, but phishing is the specific method described.

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