phishing
noun/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
[uncountable]- the activity of tricking people into providing personal or financial information by sending emails, texts, etc. that seem to be from companies that the person knows, often in order to steal money from them compare pharming (2)Topics Crime and punishmentc1
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