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Practicing dialects

Some pretexts may include the use of some dialects due to several reasons. An interesting statistic thrown into the marketing industry is that almost 75% of Americans love British accents. Therefore, they will readily listen to what people with such accents have to say. Some pretexts may require a social engineer to appeal to a target using such an accent. The problem is that it is easy to tell when one is faking an accent. If this is discovered, the target may be alarmed and the chances of success for the attack might drastically fall. Let us take an example of a social engineer requesting high-valued prototypes of a certain product that he intends to use for a UK-based organization. He may communicate with targets through ...