ABSTRACT
A social engineer's primary goal is to develop the trust to enable them to carry out their attack. If we want to develop trust with someone in order to deceive them into giving us information or performing an action, then developing rapid rapport can be a key to our success. Many observers have pointed to the fact that people in a high state of rapport will mirror each other's body language. Since a person's state of mind is reflected in their breathing rate, social engineer can quite quickly begin to match them by mirroring this attribute. True listening is the sort of listening that people rarely do; an intense concentration on the content of what the person is saying. An alternative to forced mirroring is to use a mind script – a simple technique that social engineer can use to direct their thinking with some powerful results.
