GEN:Internet scam known as Phishing.

[Sybil Finemel <sfinemel@COMCAST.NET>]

http://www.wordspy.com/words/phishing.asp

The term phishing comes from the fact that Internet scammers are using
increasingly sophisticated lures as they "fish" for users' financial
information and password data...

Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
 http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian.
sfinemel@comcast.net

'No entertainment is so cheap as reading;nor any pleasure so lasting'
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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