Finally, a pretext can be made to be convincing using a number of tools. The most important one is a business card. People generally tend to be trusting of business cards and believe that a person is all that a business card says. Therefore, if the pretext involves claiming to be from a certain computer repair company, making a business card with your name neatly written alongside the company name and logo will save you some hassle. Business cards can also be handed out to targets that begin to doubt a pretext and want to be given time to make up their minds. Another tool that drastically improves the chances of success in a pretexting attack is a uniform. If, for example, an attacker wants to dumpster dive an organization, he may just go to the guards, explain that he is from a garbage collection company, and he wants to remove the bin liners before...