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Nathan House is the founder and CEO of Station X a cyber security training and consultancy company. The social engineer uses influence and persuasion in order to deceive, convince or manipulate. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology. The following is an example of a previous job I performed for a client. It demonstrates what seemed like insignificant information can build trust with people and compromise a company. This has been provided as further reading for an interview I did on penetration testing and social engineering for PC Extreme magazine.