Summary

This short chapter has discussed a very powerful skill used in social engineering to bring targets out and put them in a position from where they can be exploited. It has looked at how one can strike up a conversation with a total stranger and maintain it. Even more importantly, it has looked at how a social engineer can preload the target with some information so as to affect the target's response. Lastly, the chapter has looked into a number of tactics that can be employed in order to successfully perform elicitation. Just to mention a few, the chapter has looked at how intelligent questions, assumptive questions, and bracketing can be used to elicit a target to give out some information with accuracy. The stroking of egos and flattering of targets has also been discussed as ways to get a target to overshare some details that are seemingly sensitive. Lastly, alcohol...