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What is phishing?
Posted by sgpaulson on Thursday, July 5, 2007
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From Wikipedia:
In computing, phishing is the fraudulent acquisition, through deception, of sensitive personal information such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as someone trustworthy with a real need for such information. (full phishing definition)

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