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Meera, an employee of a Pune firm, receives an email that appears to come from her bank and asks her to enter her net-banking password on a linked page. The page is a copy created by a fraudster. This act of tricking people into revealing confidential details through a fake message is best called:

The act is phishing. It involves sending a message that imitates a genuine sender, such as a bank, to trick the recipient into revealing confidential details like passwords. The other terms refer to data analysis, print queuing or network protection, not deceptive fraud.

  1. APhishingCorrect
  2. BSpooling
  3. CData mining
  4. DFirewalling

Explanation

Phishing means sending deceptive messages that imitate a genuine source so that the victim discloses confidential data such as passwords. Data mining is analysis of large data sets, spooling is queuing of print jobs and a firewall is a protective barrier, so none of them describes the fraud.

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