Phishing by phone call — vishing — in which a person claiming to be your bank, your tax office or your own IT department talks you through handing over what they need. Named in 2006, industrialised by call centres, and lately augmented by cloned voices. The record's entry for the call you should hang up on.
Seen in the wild on a school noticeboard — a teacher's handwritten poster with Vishing on it, followed by a smiley. Genuinely unsure whether this is the birth or the death.
I remember when Vishing was still a niche thing — 2006 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
The record notes the vishing call is polite, urgent and already knows your name, and that the only correct response is to hang up and call the number on the back of the card.
You were there. What happened?
