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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 21, 2008.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 25, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 20, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
August 24, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
August 24, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 11, 2006	Featured article review	Kept
April 23, 2009	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

Page hijacking was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 2 May 2021 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Phishing. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Chris Richardson (March 3, 2005). "New Phishing Law Could Net Offenders 5 Years". WebProNews.
Loren Baker (April 2, 2005). "Microsoft Sues Phishers Over Identity Theft". Search Engine Journal.
Jason Gretencord (June 22, 2005.). "Fraudulent e-mails biggest threat to Internet users". Indiana Statesman. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Lynn Wilde (January 23, 2006.). "Layton family falls victim to online 'phishing' scam". The WSU Signpost. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Newegg.com (November 8, 2006). "October 2006 Phishing Scam". Newegg.

Splitting proposal[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

No objection to split, which has been completed by proposer on 19 Feb 2023. Felix QW (talk) 22:12, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruce1ee, MrOllie, Firefly, Njd-de, and Mindmatrix: I propose that the contents of the History section be put onto a separate page called List of phishing incidents, similar to List of security hacking incidents. The Phishing article would then focus on types and prevention, and the List of phishing incidents article can become more detailed, especially as these types of events continue to occur in the future – Kjerish (talk) 17:42, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.