phishing

/ (ˈfɪʃɪŋ) /


noun
  1. the practice of using fraudulent e-mails and copies of legitimate websites to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft

Origin of phishing

1
C21: from fishing in the sense of catching the unwary by offering bait; computer-hacker slang often replaces f with ph

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