Social Engineering in the Workplace

An anonymous reader writes "Could a total stranger walk out of your business with thousands of dollars in merchandise without your knowing? Even worse, could they manipulate you into helping them each step along the way?"

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Could a total stranger walk out of your business with thousands of dollars in merchandise without your knowing? Even worse, could they manipulate you into helping them each step along the way?

Offtopic...

But this occurred in the last 24 hours.

I live with some close friends in a 'share-house'. We all have common interests and we enjoy a fair deal of household harmony.

Recently, I did a big favour for a friend by letting him store some of his belongings at my house while he moved.

All of this was pretty normal until last night. Now, one of my room-mates gave me a celeron 750 box to mess around with. I had to throw in some parts myself, but I got it going. Then he asked for it back so he could give it to his grandma (she's still running a pentium 150!).

This morning I woke up to loud cursing coming from the living room. My friend who's storing his stuff here, came in during the middle of the night, unscrewed the case and took the cd-rom(!). Ignoring the dvd, vcr, pentium 4 and other valuables in the living room, only the cd-rom from the box my room-mate was working on was gone.

My room-mate intended to deliver the PC to his grandma today, and he was so annoyed, he promised to 'stab the bastard in the face'. What puzzles me, however, is how he showed such disrespect for other peoples' property, while we happen to be storing his 21" monitor (amoungst other valuables) for him. Doesn't make much sense? We suspect drugs might be involved.

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