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In this type of social engineering attacks depends upon a victim taking the bait, just like a fish reacting to a worm on a hook, in this cybercriminal leaves a malware infected physical device, such as USB drive in a place where the target will see it. The victim then picks up the device and loads it onto his or her computer, unintentionally installing malware.

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Vishing is also known as voice phishing. We can also say that it is a voice version of fishing in which V stands for voice otherwise, the scam procedure is same. The criminal uses the phone to trick a victim into handing over valuable information.

A whaling attack is an attempt to steal sensitive information and is often targeted at senior management or other high-profile targets such as politicians or celebrities. The word whaling is used to indicate that the target being pursued is a big fish to capture. Whaling emails are a lot more sophisticated than your run of the mill phishing emails and much harder to spot.

In pretexting one person lies to another person to gain access to personal data. For example in pretexting scam all the attacker pretends like that they need personal data in order to confirm the identity of the recipient.