sharlein writes: Vishing is the practice of leveraging Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to trick private personal and financial information from the public for the purpose of financial reward. The term is a combination of "voice" and phishing.
Vishing exploits the public's trust in landline telephone services, which have traditionally terminated in physical locations which are known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. However, with the advent of VoIP, telephone services may now terminate in computers, which are far more susceptible to fraudluent attacks than traditional "dumb" telephony endpoints.
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