Setting up the environment
In order to get a target to a vulnerable point of easily being persuaded, it is necessary to create a suitable environment. A suitable environment is one where the target feels obligated to do something for the social engineer. There are four tactics used to create this environment.
Influence tactics
Social engineers dedicate time to practice their persuasion skills until it is almost natural to them. They go to the point of trying to persuade almost everyone on everything just to prove their skills. This is because persuasion plays the ultimate move in a social engineering attack. There are eight techniques used to influence people. The government, scammers, politicians, and media personnel employ these tactics to get people to buy their ideas and not rely on their own knowledge.
Reciprocation
Humans mostly respond in kind when treated well and this is an exploitable reaction by social engineers. When rushing to a closing lift, if someone inside holds the doors so...
