Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person's sense of urgency?
Which of the following describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person's sense of urgency?
A phishing email stating that a cash settlement has been awarded but will expire soon describes a social engineering technique that seeks to exploit a person's sense of urgency. It creates a false sense of immediate action required to prevent missing out on something valuable, prompting the target to react quickly and often without careful consideration.
Answer is A
Because of the part "will expire soon"
even a toddler can get this right
My answer is A because the offer will expire soon, so this urgency like the question purpose
Answer is A. Option C is wrong, vishing call that requests a donation be made to a local charity, targets the victim's generosity rather than urgency
so what am i suppose to be thinking the answer is the most voted or the answer it tells me???
answer is correct due to it being the most time sensitive.
Confused why it says the correct answer is C, when it's clearly A. Is Comptia expecting people to answer C for that?
The ' will expire soon' will give the person a sense of urgency.
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Answer is A
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The fact of urgency is the possible expiration of the offer. My choice is "A".
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I will go with A.
The reason they say C is the correct answer: Vishing is VOICE-Phishing. It's much harder to turn down a person on the phone than to ignore written correspondence. I think the authors are trying to draw a distinction between the written communication and the voice communication. But I agree, it's misleading and a very gray area. Unless it maps directly to something in their courseware, I might do a re-write on this question.
Just remember, these answers are guesses. NONE of the actual exam answers are technically known, for certain. A lot of these "correct" answers are, in fact, incorrect.
Not at al correct, Exam Topics has to make some questions wrong in order to escape copyright issues. They've already had a couple run-ins with it already, so they're doing their best to avoid it while also still being able to provide us with good study material. The answer is 'A' because of the "...expires soon" part. It's easy to ignore someone on the phone, you just hang up.
A would be my clear choice Phishing scams are email and text message campaigns to frighten the customer create urgency Contact at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b4c0dcd1d59ac7d9ddc0dc8684f4dbc1c0d8dbdbdf9ad7dbd9">[email protected]</a> for full questions