During a penetration testing engagement, you have been tasked with assessing the susceptibility of employees to phishing attacks. Drawing upon the principles of influence, you decide to craft an email that will appear urgent, persuading recipients to click on a link to update their password immediately. The email will warn the recipients about a series of unauthorized login attempts detected on their accounts. Which method of influence best describes this tactic?
The urgency in the email is crafted to compel the recipient to act quickly, thus exploiting the 'Urgency' principle of influence. This method is commonly utilized in phishing campaigns to create a sense of immediate threat, making the targets less likely to think critically and more likely to comply with the attacker's request without proper scrutiny.
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