CompTIA Security + (SY0-701) > Section 5.39 Pretexting > Flashcards
Type of Social Engineering attack
Pretexting
Gives some amount of information that seems true so that the victim will give more information
Mitigation involves TRAINING the employees not to fall for pretext and not to fill in the gaps for people when they are calling
Those windows callers saying you have malware on your PC.