[Ads-l] New to me: _spearphishing_

[Ben Zimmer]

Wilson, you pegged it as "new jargon" back in '08:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2008-April/081005.html

Still new-ish! It's come up a few times on the list since then, most
recently in 2015:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2015-February/135914.html

In that thread Garson dates it back to 2004. The cite below looks to be
misdated by Google Books -- searches within the text reveal that the
edition was actually published in 2006. "Spear phishing" isn't in the 1997
original or the 2003 edition:

https://books.google.com/books?id=PLcjAQAAMAAJ
https://books.google.com/books?id=YQVK4rZmOaYC

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doing business on the Internet: forms and analysis - Page 10-34
> https://books.google.com/books?id=fgY9AQAAIAAJ
> Julian S. Millstein, ‎Jeffrey D. Neuburger, ‎Jeffrey P. Weingart - 1997 -
> ‎Snippet view
> A new type of phishing has also sprung up, called _"spear phishing."_ This
> is a targeted scam that seeks out one company’s employees or members of a
> particular association, claiming to be the group's e-mail provider or a
> high-level executive.
>
> Spearphishing has since been expanded to include real or imagined
> customers, e.g.
>
> "Dear Valued Customer,
>
> In order for Amazon Customer Service to respond properly to your recent
> communication regarding your last order, we shall need you to provide us
> with access to all of your personal information,"
>
> Yeah, right, hopeubentuk at playju4afool.tk
>
>
>

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