phishing

tricking an internet user into giving you his/her login name and p-ssword. could also be used to get credit card information. usualy an act of a lamer on aol.
im a worthless idiot trying to trick noobs in to giving me there p-ssword because im an idiot.
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the act of setting up a fake store front that looks like the real one to trick people; usually to steal their personal information.

the word was named after brien phish who set up a credit card scam in the 1980s over the phone by pretending to be from the credit card company.
this is a clever phish attempt by a couple of hooligans.
scamming method used to ellicit information from “uninformed” computer users through impersonation of trusted sources.
joe got an e-mail from ebay saying he needed to enter his username and p-ssword at the link provided to verify his account information. it later turns out he was a victim of phishing.
the imitation of a company or person to get somebody else’s money; a hacker term.
phishing is one of the easiest ways of hacking if you are good at social engineering.
collecting logos and graphics from a genuine source (e.g. citibank) and making fraudulent e-mails out of them, to obtain data about a person
“…we will terminate your checking account, unless you can answer these few simple questions in our survey”
little f-cking internet nerd f-ggot sh-t for brains that trick you into giving out your personal information (p-sswords etc), i lost my steam (pc gaming service) account with three great games, team fortress 2, css and gmod to these sh-tty fart bandits, get a f-ckin life you phishing j-zznets
phishers: sign up here for the left 4 dead 2 early beta

you: f-ckin h-ll yes, early left 4 dead 2

phishers: yoink, thanks for your account and the games you spent hard earned money to buy

you: f-ck sh-t t-tty b-llsack phishing scr-t-ms
a process used by individuals that are attempting to illegally obtain personal information about a person for the purposes of stealing that person’s ident-ty, financial or personal information. most commonly used by calling a credit card company, bank or other data collection inst-tution several times to piece together bits of information into a complete profile of a specific individual.
some piece of shiite muslim was phishing my credit card information from my bank and charged $1000 on it.