pretexting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Spies, private investigators, criminals, and even some journalists have long used false identities to trick people into providing information, a practice known as pretexting.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019
Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 was passed in order to prevent pretexting of telephone companies to obtain subscriber information.
From Forbes • Dec. 13, 2012
She wound up taking the fall because the board member who revealed the pretexting, Thomas J. Perkins, the former venture capitalist, had it in for her.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2010
"HARD-CHARGING" Holston was appointed general counsel of HP in 2007, months after heading up an independent probe into the so-called pretexting scandal in 2006.
From Reuters • Aug. 13, 2010
I felt ready to faint while they were talking, and rose from table pretexting as an excuse, that I had a payment to make that evening, which I could not in honour defer any longer.
From A Fair Penitent by Collins, Wilkie
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