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Making the target powerless

Another use of manipulation is to make a target powerless. This is a useful but dark application of manipulation. To do this, a social engineer must take a position that has a higher authority than that of the target. Anger is also another tactic used to make the target feel powerless. By using threats and causing doubt on the target, the target might feel powerless. The social engineer assumes an overpowering demeanor to make the target back down and feel powerless. A group of social engineers took advantage of the Haiti incident to milk sensitive details from people. The group put out a website that claimed to have information about the people that had perished. This was information hard to come by. The social ...