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phisherman

phisherman noun: the criminal performing phishing attacks.

Noun

phisherman (plural phishermen)

  1. (Internet) 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.2010, Ross J. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

Forms of phisherman

pluralphishermen

Origin of phisherman

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

Questions about phisherman

What does phisherman mean?
Phisherman means the criminal performing phishing attacks.
What part of speech is phisherman?
Phisherman is a noun.
What is the plural of phisherman?
The plural of phisherman is phishermen.

Words near phisherman in the dictionary

  1. phirotopes
  2. phis
  3. phish
  4. phished
  5. phisher
  6. phisherman
  7. phishermen
  8. phishers
  9. phishes
  10. Phishhead
  11. Phishheads

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