Social engineering techniques

​There are several ways a person with a malicious intent can perform a desired action. First one is Authority. Such a person can represent that he or she has authority to give commands to perform certain actions. Second one is an intimidation technique, when a person is scared and that person feels a need to perform certain actions to reduce or relieve the impact of these threats. Intimidation is forcefully making an individual to perform actions that an attacker wants to do.

Third one is consensus, it is a technique to make a person to believe that others also do this action. Fourth one is scarcity. Scarcity - is a social engineering technique to let the person know that only this person knows how to perform a certain action. Fifth one is familiarity. Familiarity - is a social engineering technique to make believe that a victim is the only person who knows how to perform a certain action. Next one is trust. Trust - this is a social engineering technique to make a victim to believe that such a person is having conversation with a trusted person. Final is urgency. Urgency - this social engineering technique tells a person that a specific action needs to be done quickly. This social engineering technique relies on the a fact that a victim does not have enough time to think.


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