phishing
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
Definition of phishing
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
“Holonym: social engineering”
“A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations.”
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noun
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(uncountable)The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
“Holonym: social engineering”
“A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations.”
- (uncountable)The act of circumventing security with an alias.
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of phish
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.
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