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An organization's receptionist received a phone call from an individual claiming to be a partner in a high-level project and requesting sensitive information. The individual is engaging in which type of social engineering?

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The name which is given to the social engineering used by the unknown caller is known as:

  • Authority

What is Authority?

This refers to the ability of a person to be able to issue commands and be obeyed because of the inherent power he has based on his status or level of position.

With this in mind, we can see that because the unknown caller tried to make use of social engineering to get access to sensitive information about a company by claiming to be a partner in a high-level project, he was making use of authority.

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