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Two men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UK (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So is original phishing supposed to be over the phone? Like it's the email game called emishing or something?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When they send the emails at night, it's called nocturnal emishing. It's a serious problem that affects thousands of people each night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They were arrested for baiting people with their mast.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No, phone phishing is phphishing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nah phishing is a 90s term though probably coined in reference to phreaking. That started up in the 60s and by the 80s even the US had mostly switched to out of band signalling for their telephone system so none of the stuff worked any more.