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Michelle pretends to be a manager from another city and calls eric to trick him into giving her his password. what social-engineering attack has michelle performed

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She has performed an impersonation attack. She has taken on the character of another (usually more important) person and has used these credentials as a way of getting privileged information from a user who might not be privy to the deception at hand.
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