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"etymology_text": "Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.",
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"text": "Holonym: social engineering"
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"ref": "2025 March 11, Sunny Yadav, “US Cities Warn of Surge in Unpaid Parking Phishing Text Scams”, in eSecurity Planet:",
"text": "A growing number of U.S. cities are alerting residents to a widespread phishing scam involving fraudulent text messages about unpaid parking violations.",
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],
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"sensitive",
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[
"username",
"username"
],
[
"password",
"password"
],
[
"credit card",
"credit card"
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"(computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details."
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"engineering",
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"The act of circumventing security with an alias."
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"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "uitvissing"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "diu³ jyu⁴ faat³",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "釣魚法 /钓鱼法"
},
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"code": "yue",
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"roman": "diu³ jyu⁴ hei¹ zaa³",
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "taɣlitoba",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "თაღლითობა"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "pišingi",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "ფიშინგი"
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"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "דִּיּוּג"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "pengelabuan"
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"word": "fioscaireacht"
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"alt": "フィッシングさぎ fisshingu sagi",
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"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "フィッシング詐欺"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "pising",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "피싱"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "hītinihanga"
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "fišing",
"sense": "malicious act",
"word": "فیشینگ"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "malicious act",
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"neuter"
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"word": "wyłudzanie danych"
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"masculine"
],
"word": "phishing"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "malicious act",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "înșelăciune electronică"
},
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "фи́шинг"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "malicious act",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "malicious act",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "nätfiske"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "malicious act",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gwe-rwydo"
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