Historical Examples

Notable People & Occassions
-Frank Abagnale: Successfully pretended to be over 8 different professions, including a doctor, a pilot and a lawyer.[1]

-Badir Brothers: 3 blind brothers who managed to successfully infiltrate the phone systems of telecom company Bezeq by pretending to be engineers and then asking company employees for passwords. [2]

-Defcon: Successfully infiltrated Fortune 500 companies, often with a mere phone call. [3]



[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5870515/Catch-me-if-you-can-10-of-the-worlds-greatest-confidence-tricks.html]

[2] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/phreaks_pr.html

[3] http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/07/technology/walmart-hack-defcon