Phisherman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The criminal performing phishing attacks. Internet

    "Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him."

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"Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him."

Etymology

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

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