found: Work cat.: U.S. Cong. House. Comm. on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Hewlett-Packard's pretexting scandal, 2006:p. 1 (pretexting; using fraud, deceit and impersonation to acquire someone's personal records without his or her consent)
found: U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Identity Theft web site, May 8, 2007(Pretexting; the practice of getting your personal information under false pretenses; pretexters sell your information to people who may use it to get credit in your name, steal your assets, or to investigate or sue you; Pretexting is against the law)
found: Wikipedia, May 8, 2007:Social engineering (security) (Pretexting is the act of creating and using an invented scenario (the pretext) to persuade a target to release information or perform an action and is usually done over the telephone; often involves some prior research or set up and the use of pieces of known information (e.g., for impersonation: date of birth, Social Security Number, last bill amount) to establish legitimacy in the mind of the target))
notfound: American Heritage dict.;National Criminal Justice thes.;Legislative Indexing Vocabulary
