--- title: "How to pronounce \"pretexting\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"pretexting\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/_GzE99AmAQU/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pretexting" --- # How to pronounce "pretexting" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/prɛtɛkstɪng/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·tex·ting** - **Parts of Speech**: verb - **VERB**: present participle and gerund of pretext ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (6 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "pretexting" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Bad news! Even with a 1/10th of one percent success rate, a million phishing emails might yield a thousand compromised accounts. Another social engineering attack is pretexting, where attackers call up, let's say a company, and then confidently pretend to be from their IT department. Often attackers will call a first number, and then ask to be transferred to a second, so that the phone number appears to be internal to the company." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GzE99AmAQU&t=124s) ### Example 2 > "being okay with it people who've met my kids people who've been at my house in 15 years of covering the valley I've never seen anything like this you have to wonder if the HP pretexting Scandal came out now when journalist phone records were tapped would there be any outrage would Ashton ker Kutcher be fine with that as well you know digging up dirt on political candidates this is a known tactic of political campaigns ail Michael has spent time in Washington" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQS0En3u4k&t=338s) ### Example 3 > "And then I asked our outside counsel, Larry Sonsini, to continue those direct conversations. No investigation, no pretexting, just let's have some direct conversations. But my goal was to also begin an assessment process." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 44:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XCOHOhzVR4&t=2691s) ### Example 4 > "powerful attack very little information yeah uh apples and hot seat right now but we've seen a lot of examples like this over the years we were talking earlier Sarah Palin and her Yahoo account during the 2008 presidential campaign the pretexting Scandal at HP uh back when Patty Dunn was in the hot seat there give us the context on relating all these stories together at its core this attack against Apple was a very lowgrade attack pretexting is a" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMMdHDHi4Go&t=36s) ### Example 5 > "earlier Sarah Palin and her Yahoo account during the 2008 presidential campaign the pretexting Scandal at HP uh back when Patty Dunn was in the hot seat there give us the context on relating all these stories together at its core this attack against Apple was a very lowgrade attack pretexting is a technique that goes back decades and private investigators have used this for years and that's why HP got in trouble it's basically you call up and in this" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMMdHDHi4Go&t=45s) ### Example 6 > "valuation and it's about every single board member and private investor stepping back and being okay with it people who've met my kids people who've been at my house in 15 years of covering the valley i've never seen anything like this you have to wonder if the hp pretexting scandal came out now when journalists phone records were tapped right would there be any outrage would ashton kitchen could be fine with" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnzsfkzRWI&t=334s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Synonyms**: [alibi](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/alibi), [stall](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stall), [canard](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/canard), [excuse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/excuse), [blag](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/blag) - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [pre](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pre), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabdominal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdominal), [preablated](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablated), [preablation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablation), [preabortal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortal), [preabortion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortion), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "pretexting" correctly? 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