Alice owns a very profitable consultant firm that handles a great deal of privacy information for her clients. The company has over 50 employees but outsources their IT services to another company. One afternoon while Alice was at lunch, her receptionist received a phone call from a person claiming to be from the IT service provider and saying that they are trying to work on a service ticket for Alice and that they need her personal cell phone number in order to ask some questions of a private nature. The receptionist knows that Alice doesn’t have any computer problems. What type of social engineering attack did Alice’s receptionist receive?

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Alice owns a very profitable consultant firm that handles a great deal of privacy information for her clients. The company has over 50 employees but outsources their IT services to another company. One afternoon while Alice was at lunch, her receptionist received a phone call from a person claiming to be from the IT service provider and saying that they are trying to work on a service ticket for Alice and that they need her personal cell phone number in order to ask some questions of a private nature. The receptionist knows that Alice doesn’t have any computer problems. What type of social engineering attack did Alice’s receptionist receive?






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