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** FencePainting
** ForbiddenFruit

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** FencePainting
FencePainting: Convincing someone to do some menial or otherwise unpleasant task by pretending it's a privilege to do it.
** ForbiddenFruitForbiddenFruit: Banning something makes people more interested in obtaining/doing it.
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** DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Winning an argument by tricking the other participant into switching sides.

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** DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Winning an argument by tricking the other participant into switching sides.sides so that they'll unknowingly start defending your side of the disagreement.
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* {{Gaslighting}}

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* {{Gaslighting}}{{Gaslighting}}: Manipulating people into believing that they are insane and that what they know actually happened they either hallucinated or remembered incorrectly.



* ReversePsychology
** BriarPatching
** DuckSeasonRabbitSeason

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* ReversePsychology
ReversePsychology: Getting a person to do something by pretending you want them to do the opposite.
** BriarPatching
BriarPatching: Tricking a person into doing something by pretending the outcome is detrimental on your part.
** DuckSeasonRabbitSeasonDuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Winning an argument by tricking the other participant into switching sides.



** ReversePsychologyBackfire
** SchmuckBait

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** ReversePsychologyBackfire
ReversePsychologyBackfire: Reverse psychology fails because the person it's tried on instead does exactly as they're told.
** SchmuckBaitSchmuckBait: A person inexplicably gets deceived by a trap that couldn't have been more obvious.
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]). Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your childhood pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are often password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]). Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your childhood pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are often password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].
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* BadReviewThreat: Threatening to give a business an excessively negative review if said business doesn't bow to your every whim.
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]). Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your childhood pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]). Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your childhood pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular often password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].
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* InsidiousRumorMill: Convince members of your social circle to turn against someone else within the same social circle by lying or manipulating them
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]. Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]. originated]]). Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your childhood pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's online accounts ''all the time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]. Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that gain access to people's information ''all the time''. But Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]. Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that to gain access to people's information online accounts ''all the time''. But time'', but Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking pure techno-wizardry]].
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]); those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. But [[HollywoodHacking good luck getting television and movies to remember that.]]

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]]); those originated]]. Those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. Hackers use the information provided in questions like that gain access to people's information ''all the time''. But Hollywood would have you believe it was [[HollywoodHacking good luck getting television and movies to remember that.]]
pure techno-wizardry]].
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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers[[note]][[TropeNamer from where the term originated]][[/note]], but [[HollywoodHacking good luck getting television and movies to remember that.]]

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These tropes are well used by [[TheSocialExpert Social Experts]] (its super trope TheFace), [[HighSchoolHustler High School Hustlers]], {{Guile Hero}}es, and {{Manipulative Bastard}}s. It's also often the ''modus operandi'' of a ConMan. Also frequently used by real-life hackers[[note]][[TropeNamer hackers ([[TropeNamer from where the term originated]][[/note]], but originated]]); those posts on social media saying your DragQueen name is your pet plus the street you grew up on? Those are two popular password recovery questions. But [[HollywoodHacking good luck getting television and movies to remember that.]]



Here are some tropes that involve SocialEngineering:

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* TrickedIntoAnotherJurisdiction

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