Social engineering is the criminal art of scamming a person into doing something or divulging sensitive information. Criminals are stealing passwords, hacking accounts and posing as friends for financial gain. There are thousands of ways for con artists to pull off their tricks. One of the latest involves the criminal posing as a Facebook “friend” on the social networking site claiming to be stuck in a foreign city and they say they need money. Social networking sites have opened a whole new door for social engineering scams.”]