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An employee of Sharma Traders receives an email that appears to come from the firm's bank and asks for his net-banking password. He enters it on the linked page and loses money. This misuse of communication is best described as:
The situation is phishing. A deceptive email imitating the bank tricked the employee into revealing his password on a fake page. It differs from spam, which is merely unsolicited bulk messaging, and from stalking, which involves repeated harassment of a person online.
- APhishingCorrect
- BDefamation by letter
- CSpamming for advertisement
- DCyber stalking
Explanation
Phishing is sending deceptive messages that impersonate a trusted entity to trick the recipient into revealing confidential data such as passwords. Spamming is only bulk unsolicited messaging without such deception to obtain credentials, and stalking involves repeated harassment.
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