Contradictions
Caution is advised when taking contradictions as a pointer to deception. This is because people do honestly forget factual accounts of a story and thus end up contradicting themselves. At times, people remember their own versions of a story, which may differ from others. This is common and has been seen a lot of times with witnesses in courtrooms giving different accounts of things that happened. Therefore, it is not always true that a respondent with contradictions is telling outright lies. Therefore, follow-up questions should be used.
Say a social engineer is targeting a particular person in a company using a thumb drive, for example, the procurement manager. The social engineer has to make sure that the thumb drive is inserted ...
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