phisherman

noun

Etymology

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

Definitions

  1. The criminal performing phishing attacks.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phisherman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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