for the (pretty) new word files...
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Sep 12 21:49:04 UTC 2006
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Laurence Horn wrote:
> There are 110 Nexis hits for "pretexting", of which 100 are from
> 2006. The first is 2001, though.
Here is the earliest I find on Nexis:
1999 _L.A. Times_ 23 Apr. [article beginning on page C1] (Nexis)
The suit accuses Denver-based Touch Tone Information Inc. of "pretexting,"
or having employees pose as bank customers in a ruse to obtain account
balances and other personal data.
Fred Shapiro
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