A Person Calls the Stark Residence and Pretends to Represent

question 54

Multiple Choice

A person calls the Stark residence and pretends to represent a credit card company. He asks Mrs. Stark to confirm her credit card number. This is an example of ________.

• A) hacking
• B) data mining
• C) pretexting
• D) sniffing

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