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<p><b>Pretexting</b>, known in the UK as <b>blagging</b>, is a type of <a href="page.php?w=Social_engineering_%28security%29">social engineering</a> attack that involves a situation, or <a href="page.php?w=pretext">pretext</a>, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable situation and to trick them into giving private information, specifically information that the victim would typically not give outside the context of the pretext. In its history, pretexting has been described as the first stage of social engineering, and has</p><p>
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