Dumpster diving
Dumpster diving, also known as trashing
is another popular method of Social Engineering. A huge amount of
information can be collected through company dumpsters or wastage from
home.Don’t dump any confidential papers into trash, before dumping make sure you don’t have any important information in it.
Hoaxing
A Hoax is an attempt to trap people into
believing that something false is real. This is usually aimed at a
single victim and is made for illicit financial or material gain a hoax
is often perpetrated as a practical joke, to cause embarrassment.
Beware don’t believe the e-mails received from unknown and don’t ever give the financial information.
Pretexting
Pretexting is the act of creating and
using an imaginary scenario to engage a targeted victim in a manner that
increases the chance the victim will reveal information or do actions
that would be unlikely in ordinary circumstances. It is more than a
simple lie.
Be cautious because strangers try to fool you by creating false
situation and make you to believe in order to collect the confidential
information.
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