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Re: Worst Phishing Fraud Attack Ever! 40 Million Card Holders

The Wondrous One (trulywondrous@gmail.com)
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:56:10 -0500

I read the article and could not find any evidence of phishing as
defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing at all. Was
something left out of the article? I see evidence of fraud due to lax
security, lack of data protection, lack of verifying "authorized"
agents, but no phishing.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: 'Phishing' as strictly defined, was
probably the wrong term to use. Phishing is when one individual
does social engineering to obtain details from other (usually not as
smart individuals is it not? What is the correct term for building in
a 'back door' or amending the software to cause the computer to do
things it was not intended to do? PAT]

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