Hunter Carr Is an Accountant with AcctSmart

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Hunter Carr is an accountant with AcctSmart.The firm has a very strict policy of requiring all users to change their passwords every sixty days.In early March,Hunter received an e-mail claiming that there had been an error updating his password and it provided Hunter with a link to a website with instructions for re-updating his password.Something about the e-mail made Hunter suspicious,so he called AcctSmart's information technology department and found that the e-mail was fictitious.The e-mail was an example of

A) social engineering.
B) piggybacking.
C) spamming.
D) phishing.