Examples of pretexting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Top tactics included phishing and pretexting, both of which involve concocting a story that will trick the victim into revealing password information and other sensitive data. — Dan Patterson, CBS News, 19 May 2021 And there are very explicit rules against tactics like pretexting, which is essentially using deception, to get someone to speak to you. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2020 The practice of obtaining customer call records by posing as the customer is known as pretexting. — Associated Press, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2006

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