"Pretexting": new?

[Wilson Gray]

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.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                                      -Sam'l Clemens

"Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it, again.

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