What Is Phishing

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Multiple Choice

What is phishing?

• A) Reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites.
• B) A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses.
• C) A masquerading attack that combines spam with spoofing.
• D) A phishing expedition in which the emails are carefully designed to target a particular person or organization.

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