"I never intended to trick anybody," said Mr. Affleck, an intense 35-year-old who spoke over a meat-free, cheese-free vegetable sandwich on Thursday.
Phishing is a malicious spoof in which a stranger sends out thousands of e-mail messages intended to trick people into sending personal information, like a bank account number or Facebook password.
They're intended to trick the evil spirits who are coming down to cause mischief, and "deflect them right back up," said Cynthia Yee, who leads feng shui tours of San Francisco's Chinatown.
While that attack relied on a simple phishing program intended to trick users into handing over personal information, hackers inside China also mounted a more complicated invasion of Google's computer systems last year.
An advertisement by Colt in the 1990s showed a mother tucking a child into bed — "Self-protection is more than your right... it's your responsibility," the ad said — and academics argued in 1991 in The Whittier Law Review that such ads were intended to trick women.
Using more than 40 online user ID's, or screen names, like thriftstorebob and big-fat-mamba-jambas, the indictment says, the bidders buoyed prices and intended to trick other bidders into believing that the sellers were respected users of eBay.
The site you are trying to visit has been identified as a forgery, intended to trick you into disclosing financial, personal or other sensitive information. .
Checking incoming e-mail against the DNS would help eliminate certain types of falsified e-mails, like "phishing" attacks in which someone sends an e-mail purporting to be from a bank or credit card company but is intended to trick the receiver into revealing private information like a credit card number.
It does not require, for example, that the defendant intended to trick anyone or to induce anyone into trading when they wouldn't otherwise do so.
Despite the use of deceptive language intended to trick voters, Amendment 67, which would have banned all abortions and restricted access to birth control, failed by a 65%to35%5% margin.
