We don't have synonyms for pretexting yet — it may be a rare, specialized, newly coined, or misspelled word. The closest thesaurus entries we have are protesting, pretending and protecting.
(N) :
a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable situation and to trick them into giving private information, specifically information that the victim would typically not give outside the context of the pretext.
(N) :
a type of social engineering attack that involves a situation, or pretext, created by an attacker in order to lure a victim into a vulnerable situation and to trick them into giving private information, specifically information that the victim would typically not give outside the context of the pretext.