GPS trackers

Getting a lot of facts about a target is important to a social engineer. The tiny bits of information about one's life could come in handy at any stage of a social engineering attack. When a social engineer wants to track the location of a target, a GPS tracker comes in handy. Knowing a target's location comes at a great advantage as it can be used to build believable pretexts. If a social engineer knows a target's location, he or she can also use it to accidentally bump into the target. This can be used to target the physical weaknesses of a target. Let's say that we have a target and we want to get some sensitive information about the company he works for, we cannot just email him requesting that information. We may have to ...

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