Forms of Social Engineering

Explain specific forms of social engineering, including blagging (pretexting), phishing, and shouldering (shoulder surfing).
Describe blagging as creating an invented scenario to manipulate a victim into providing information or performing unusual actions.
Describe phishing as a fraudulent technique for obtaining private information, typically deployed via email or SMS.
Describe shouldering as the act of directly observing a person's private information, such as watching them enter a PIN at a cash machine.

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