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pharming
 n.— «Pharming is a short way of describing the process of…well, it’s difficult to distill into plain English, but the end result is that the perpetrators redirect people from legitimate Web sites to fake versions that prompt people to fork over their usernames and passwords.» —“Phear of Pharming” by Robert MacMillan Washington Post Mar. 14, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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