Social engineering: cool story

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Confessions of a social engineer

So how many of you are actively using social engineering techniques?
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  • W StewartW Stewart Member Posts: 794 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I ask people for passwords and they give them to me.
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  • W StewartW Stewart Member Posts: 794 ■■■■□□□□□□
    So now that I've read the actual article, I did call up GameStop and lie about purchasing some dlc content and not receiving it for a Dragonball Z game. Oh yeah. Hardcore hacker.
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  • thomas_thomas_ Member Posts: 1,012 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Not really social engineering, but I used to work with a guy who ordered a $300 watch online and received a $1500 watch instead. He called them up about the mistake and they told him just to keep it.

    More recently my girlfriend bought a $150 watch online from Wal-mart, they sent her a Surface RT instead. She tried calling them up and telling them that they sent the wrong item, but they didn't believe her. I guess they thought she was trying to run some type of scam on them?
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  • olaHaloolaHalo Member Posts: 748 ■■■■□□□□□□
    good read
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