social engineering

Social engineering: Scammers employ psychological manipulation to exploit human trust.

US officials said that Iran had used “social engineering and other efforts” to seek out direct access to both the Democratic and Republican campaigns – a tactic they said had been used by both Iran and Russia in other countries around the world.

Sylvia Garcia, a Democratic US representative whose district includes part of Houston said that the order was akin to "social engineering".

It caters to special interests and will allow unidentified social engineering on our dime.

Many in the ethnic Macedonian majority see such efforts as unfair social engineering, contributing to a big election win on May 8 for a nationalist-tinged political party, VMRO-DPMNE, that appeals mainly to the majority and has pledged to scrap the Balancer.