Synonyms for phishing
phish·ing

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1. phishingnoun

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

2. phishingnoun

   The act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organization. This is usually combined with a threat or request for information: for example, that an account will close, a balance is due, or information is missing from an account. The email will ask the recipient to supply confidential information, such as bank account details, PINs or passwords; these details are then used by the owners of the website to conduct fraud.

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

3. phishingnoun

   The act of circumventing security with an alias.

   Synonyms:
   spoofing

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1. List of paraphrases for "phishing":

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1. Marc Rogers:

   I've never seen this volume of phishing, i am literally seeing phishing messages in every language known to man.

2. James Scott:

   A Nation State or Cyber-Mercenary won’t hack e-voting machines one by one. This takes too long and will have minimal impact. Instead, they’ll take an easier approach like spear phishing the manufacturer with malware and poison the voting machine update pre-election and allow the manufacturer to update each individual machine with a self-deleting payload that will target the tabulation process.

3. Kimberly Sutherland:

   The over 75 age group face a different challenge as they are generally considered to be less familiar with the latest digital technologies, increasing their susceptibility to scams and phishing attempts. Fraudsters are opportunists, looking for the easiest targets.

4. Evan Reiser:

   When the first stimulus payments were released in April 2020, scammers launched a phishing campaign that impersonated the IRS, claiming that stimulus checks would be withheld unless the recipient updated their address information.

5. David Ferbrache:

   (That) imposes cost on them (the criminals), because they then have to reconstruct that botnet, those phishing sites, for us it's very much a bit of a call to arms across the community ... There's a lot more we can do.