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Stenka25 Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
The origin of the word, "phishing"
I have checked "Wikipedia."
But there wasn't any clue.
Please tell me.
But there wasn't any clue.
Please tell me.
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Hi Stenka There is an entire article on Phishing at Wikipedia. Here is part of the Wikipedia article: "The term phishing is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking and alludes to the use of increasingly sophisticated baits used in the hope of a "catch" of financial information and passwords. The word may also be linked to leetspeak , in which ph is a common substitution for f .
- Hi Stenka There is an entire article on Phishing at Wikipedia.
- Here is part of the Wikipedia article: "The term phishing is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking and alludes to the use of increasingly sophisticated baits used in the hope of a "catch" of financial information and passwords.
- The word may also be linked to leetspeak , in which ph is a common substitution for f .
- " I got quite a few Google results using the search words Pfishing etymology
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Hi Stenka
There is an entire article on Phishing at Wikipedia.
Here is part of the Wikipedia article:
"The term phishing is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking and alludes to the use of increasingly sophisticated baits used in the hope of a "catch" of f
There is an entire article on Phishing at Wikipedia.
Here is part of the Wikipedia article:
"The term phishing is a variant of fishing, probably influenced by phreaking and alludes to the use of increasingly sophisticated baits used in the hope of a "catch" of f
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