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Phishing is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

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

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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
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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.
Lynn Wilde (January 23, 2006). "Layton family falls victim to online 'phishing' scam". The WSU Signpost.
Newegg.com (November 8, 2006). "October 2006 Phishing Scam". Newegg.

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