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Social Engineering is a term that basically means "talking someone into something." It's not hacking or cheating, though it's often used in conjunction with such activities. Successful confidence men and used car salesmen are consummate social engineers. So are successful cheaters in online games, since the trick of succeeding at that venture isn't to find the hacks and key loggers and item droppers, it's to get other people to use them. | '''Social Engineering''' is a term that basically means "talking someone into something." It's not hacking or cheating, though it's often used in conjunction with such activities. Successful confidence men and used car salesmen are consummate social engineers. So are successful cheaters in online games, since the trick of succeeding at that venture isn't to find the hacks and key loggers and item droppers, it's to get other people to use them. | ||
There are countless social engineering scams covered on the [[warnings]] page, most of them Battle.net adaptions of classic "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick grifts]." The '''vast''' majority of these involve ways to (supposedly) get rich quick by duping items, hacking items, creating special item types, boosting your character's level or powers, etc. | There are countless social engineering scams covered on the [[warnings]] page, most of them Battle.net adaptions of classic "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick grifts]." The '''vast''' majority of these involve ways to (supposedly) get rich quick by duping items, hacking items, creating special item types, boosting your character's level or powers, etc. | ||
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