Talk:Phishing

I would like to know who was the fckin asshole who invented the word! It's fishing, not phishing you fckin morons!!!

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Date	Process	Result
May 25, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 20, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
August 24, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
August 24, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 11, 2006	Featured article review	Kept
April 23, 2009	Featured article review	Demoted
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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Chris Richardson (March 3, 2005). "New Phishing Law Could Net Offenders 5 Years". WebProNews.
Loren Baker (April 2, 2005). "Microsoft Sues Phishers Over Identity Theft". Search Engine Journal.
Jason Gretencord (June 22, 2005.). "Fraudulent e-mails biggest threat to Internet users". Indiana Statesman. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Lynn Wilde (January 23, 2006.). "Layton family falls victim to online 'phishing' scam". The WSU Signpost. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Newegg.com (November 8, 2006). "October 2006 Phishing Scam". Newegg.

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"leetspeak"

Taking out the leetspeak comment at the beginning of the article because substituting "ph" for "f" is something that existed long before leetspeak.

AlMac Comments

Security measures against one threat can make you more vulnerable to others, so perhaps there needs to be better linkage to other families of computer security threats.
1. The Phishing article is part of the Spamming series and is in Categories including Internet Fraud. Perhaps there should be "See also" or some kind of linking to other related Personal Computer Security topics.
  1. Computer Viruses
  2. Reasons for having a Firewall
  3. Notion that most software labeled as Anti-Spyware is in fact Spyware.
  4. All of this rightfully belongs in separate Wiki articles. All I am trying to say here is that the linkage to these other topics could perhaps be improved from the Phishing article.
As a newbie, the first thing I tried to work on was Security breaches.
1. I had barely started keying in plans for a much larger contribution, when I was informed that I was in violation of POV.
2. I stepped back and tried to repair that, only to realize that my writing was severely hurt by the process.

—The preceding comment was added on 13:09, 5 July 2005.

Change I'm requesting

On the page at the bottom there is a box with the 'articles on spamming links' all in it, separated into a few main categories, yet some of the links are split over two lines and it's hard to tell which heading they go with. Could someone please expand the width of the box so that each topic's links take up only one line, it would make navigation and understanding easier, for me, and I think for others as well. Thank-you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.199.27.204 (talk • contribs) 21:24, 3 July 2006

Section removed

I removed the following unsourced, unencyclopedic section.