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Social Engineering from Wikipedia
Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.
Social Engineering
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All Social Engineering techniques are based on flaws in human logic known as cognitive biases. These bias flaws are used in various combinations to create attack techniques.
an example:
In a 2002 episode of the video podcast thebroken, host Kevin Rose demonstrated how to use social engineering to get "Free Pizza 4 Life". The segment depicted Rose loitering outside of a San Francisco pizzeria, waiting for a random customer to walk in and place a take-out order. Once this happened, Rose followed the person into the store (as to appear that he was with the person), and took note of their name, phone number and pizza order (all information except for the actual pizza order was censored from the video). Rose left the pizzeria, and 30 minutes later, placed a phone call to the store's manager. Acting as if he was in that customer's party, Rose reported a complaint with the pizza, then negotiated with the manager to get a free new pizza in lieu of the bad one. The manager obliged, Rose returned to the store and successfully walked out with a free pizza.
Wikipedia on scams
A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, scheme, or swindle) is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. The victim is known as the mark, and any accomplices are known as shills.
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Wikipedia on Fraud
In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and is also a civil law violation.
Many hoaxes are fraudulent, although those not made for personal gain are not technically frauds. Defrauding people of money is presumably the most common type of fraud, but there have also been many fraudulent "discoveries" in art, archaeology, and science.
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