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Historically the word in English has had no homonyms nor alternate spellings. However, there is a word that is relatively new to the English language, phishing, which means endeavoring to trick people into revealing personal or sensitive information, such as their credit card number, through the use of deceptive emails or web pages.

I'm sure that some level of similarity between the way hackers try to deceive their victims and the way fishermen try to deceive fish is implied.

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