"Pretexting": new?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> According to Slashdot,
>
> "Pretexting" [main stress on the first syllable?] is the practice of
> pretending to be someone else in order to obtain personal information
> on a person, such as telephone or banking records.

google on "pretexting Hewlitt-Packard".

arnold

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