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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">A friend directed me to this page -- mentioned in a bit of an aside in the article, it seems a couple of interesting terms have sprouted up regarding "phishing":</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> Whaling -- targeting the "big fish" [corporate execs, i.e., people with tons o'money at their disposal, either personally or through their company...]</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> Spear Phishing: targeting a specific individual</FONT></B>
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<P><B></B><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/technology/16whale.html?_r=1&nl=tech&emc=techa1&oref=slogin"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Courier New">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/technology/16whale.html?_r=1&nl=tech&emc=techa1&oref=slogin</FONT></U></B></A><B></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">This article is more about "whaling", though, with a notice about an attack starting yesterday (?) which went undetected by at least 40% of the spam/virus/trojan detectors</FONT></B></P>
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