Talk:Phishing/Archive 2
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"Phlashing" confusion
I have encountered two different meanings of "phlashing" listed on Wikipedia itself. One is a type of phishing, as mentioned on this page, but another is mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Permanent_denial-of-service_attacks and is described as a form of denial-of-service attack. Both seem to be sourced. Could there be a message on top about potential confusion? 24.5.8.227 (talk) 06:27, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
Physical Mail
Please also consider adding physical mail. Phishing concerns all forms of data extraction for nefarious purposes. The miscreants may try to obtain more date to execute their scam using physical (snail) mail. After obtaining your address in some data breach or from a public website. they can send you physical mail with a questionaire which includes prompts for the missing data whilst at the same time offering some monetary gain or by impersonating some official body or by some other plausible means based on the data they have about you or your organisation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.230.182 (talk) 17:00, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
Bulk phishing?
The section describing 'Spear phishing' opposes the named type of phishing to 'bulk phishing' – but the bulk phishing is not mentioned anywhere else in the article... --CiaPan (talk) 16:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
Gmail phishing scam
Was wishing to know, if Gmail Phishing Scam text, can be merged here?.Junosoon (talk) 14:47, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
Freedom Abhash b (talk) 10:04, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
I think it would be very beneficial to the reader to lump all kinds of email phishing into this article instead of making them go to a different page for each provider (gmail, yahoo, etc...) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abeddia2 (talk • contribs) 18:31, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 06:33, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Citation #10
"Phishing awareness has become important at home and at the work place. For instance, from 2017 to 2020, phishing attacks have increased from 72% to 86% among businesses."
The citation for this sentence seems to be incorrect, there is nothing mentioning the above in the article. The correct source could be maybe this page from the gov.uk. 91.64.5.250 (talk) 12:40, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Cituatin#20
"Phishing awareness has become important at home and at the work place. For instance, from 2017 to 2020, phishing attacks have increased from 72% to 86% among businesses."
The citation for this sentence seems to be incorrect, there is nothing mentioning the above in the article. The correct source could be maybe this page from the gov.uk. 91.64.5.250 (talk) 12:40, 24 September 2022 (UTC) 49.144.3.65 (talk) 08:43, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
Splitting proposal
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- No objection to split, which has been completed by proposer on 19 Feb 2023. Felix QW (talk) 22:12, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
@Bruce1ee, MrOllie, Firefly, Njd-de, and Mindmatrix: I propose that the contents of the History section be put onto a separate page called List of phishing incidents, similar to List of security hacking incidents. The Phishing article would then focus on types and prevention, and the List of phishing incidents article can become more detailed, especially as these types of events continue to occur in the future – Kjerish (talk) 17:42, 31 December 2022 (UTC)