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Telephone

Even though it might not sound like an advanced tool for social engineering, telephones are still being used today to carry out social engineering attacks. They get the social engineers to speak directly to the targets and use certain tones, word selection, and stress on some points to get the target to reveal certain information. Telephones are used to obtain sensitive information from certain groups of people today. There have been multiple complaints where attackers have called elderly people and threatened them with lawsuits or hefty fines if they do not reveal certain information or send some money. There have also been complaints of attackers pretending to be IT online help guys that call people and request them to give out ...