"Pretexting": new?

[Erik Hoover]

In late 2000, a licensed private investigator offered pretexting as a
service to my company as part of an effort to skiptrace a deadbeat.

The term was new to my ears at that time.

Erik

On Apr 9, 2007, at 11:51 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> According to Slashdot,
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> "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.
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> -Wilson
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