There are six methods given below, which could be beneficial for understanding, recognizing, socializing, and preparing the target for your final operation. These methods have been categorized and described according to their unique representation in the social engineering field. We have also included some examples to present a real-world scenario under which you can apply each of the selected methods. Remember that psychological factors form the basis of these attack methods, and to make these methods more efficient, they should be regularly drilled and exercised by social engineers.
Attackers will pretend to be someone else in order to gain trust. For instance, to acquire the target's bank information, phishing would be the perfect solution unless the target has no e-mail account. Hence, the attacker first collects or harvests e-mail addresses from the target, and then prepares a scam page that looks and functions exactly like the original bank web interface...