phish
v.— «Start up the backbone and phish newbies for passwords.» —“A Day in the Life of a Spammer” by bone_head98@hotmail.com Usenet: news.admin.net-abuse.email Feb. 22, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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