phishingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/us/ˈfɪʃ.ɪŋ/an attempt to trick someone into giving information over the internet or by email that would allow someone else to take money from them , for example by taking money out of their bank account
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- perjury
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
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phisher
noun [ C ] uk/ˈfɪʃ.ər/us/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ/