Phishing Definition

fizhiŋ
noun
The practice of sending fraudulent e-mail that appears to be from a legitimate business, as a bank or credit card company, in an attempt to deceive an individual into disclosing personal information, as a password or an account number.
Webster's New World

The act of circumventing security with an alias.

Wiktionary
verb

Present participle of phish.

Wiktionary

Origin of Phishing

  • Respelling of fishing (“trying to find"). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet.

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Phishing Sentence Examples

  • If you shop on the Internet you should know about phishing.

  • Phishing is when someone contacts you through a pop-up message or email message requesting that you provide confidential information to update your account.

  • A simple way to spot a phishing email is to roll your cursor over a link you get in an email which has been presented to you as purportedly from your financial institution or an online merchant.

  • Additionally, with the ever-growing specter of identity theft and phishing scams, the ability to use proxy sites to visit MySpace can only help users retain a sense of security and comfort in their wish to enjoy social networking.

  • Participants proved vulnerable across the board to phishing attacks.

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Words Starting With

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