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Date: Thu Jun 29 21:46:29 2006
From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon)
Subject: Are consumers being misled by "phishing"?


: There are a million books on phishing in borders book store, if the 
: phishing phrase hadn't been coined, a lot of people wouldn't be 
: millionaires right now.
: 
: They brought in "phishing" in 2003. The actual act of phishing had been 
: going on for years before the phrase was coined. Since the beginning of 

The term was coined long before 2003. 

March 3, 1996:
http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/LOLIE/1lolie.txt

May 8, 1999:
http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/UHA/uha1-7.txt

And i'm sure there are other references going back to the early 90's if 
someone wants to do some digging.

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