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Introduction

Elicitation is one of the low risk and well-concealed social engineering techniques that has impressive results. There are some factors that make elicitation uniquely successful that have, over time, been engrained in humans. These are as follows:

• Desire of many people to be polite to strangers
• Desire from professionals to appear knowledgeable when questioned
• Desire of most people not to lie to people who appear to be genuinely concerned
• Willingness of many people to answer well-posed questions about themselves

Let's take a real-life example of how some of these factors play a part in normal conversations and how a social engineer can take advantage of them. Let's say that there is a corporate event where people get to interact ...