Since pretexting is all about creating and living a lie, it is best if we take real examples of some scenarios where pretexting was successfully executed. As was stated earlier in the chapter, pretexting is not only used in social engineering and therefore you should not be surprised if an example is outside the context of a malicious attack. Some of the famous pretexting cases are explained further.
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