Phishing or Fishing - What's the difference?
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(computing) 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.
The act of circumventing security with an alias.
Of, about, or pertaining to the act of .
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, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
(label) The act of catching fish.
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
(senseid)(uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
(label) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
*Spenser
*:the rent of the fishings
As nouns the difference between phishing and fishing
is that phishing is 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 while fishing is the act of catching fish.As verbs the difference between phishing and fishing
is that phishing is present participle of lang=en while fishing is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective fishing is
of, about, or pertaining to the act of fishing.phishing
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(-) (wikipedia phishing)Synonyms
* spoofingVerb
(head)See also
fishing
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Adjective
(-)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Synonyms
* piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorianNoun
- a good day's fishing
- the fishing industry
