The term which best describes the tactic these criminals were using is; Choice C; Phishing
Phishing Tactic
Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent message, engineers a technique designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker or to deploy malicious software on the victim's infrastructure most prominent of which is ransomware.
Such sensitive information may relate to identity theft or financial information theft for criminal purposes.
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