FightingLanguageChange

Look, I know there's no point in fighting language change, particularly if you're arguing for specialist uses of terms that have escaped into the wild.

But sometimes, you just have to do it anyway.

Not every bad thing that can happen is "phishing". If you gave away your password and account name to evil people thinking they were legitimate people, congratulations! You were phished. Be less trusting.

If you gave your password and account name to well-intentioned but stupid people who gave it away by accident, welcome to the crowd! You were not phished. Use different passwords different places.

If you clicked a link that did bad things to you, but you didn't give it your password on purpose, my head spins at the idea of listing all the things that could be -- and not one of them is phishing. (Most of them are also neither viruses or trojans.)

If, and this is what sent me over the edge today, you receive mail from an account that you believe to be totally fictional, with no real person behind it? Nobody in this scenario was phished. And I am not at all certain what you think "phished" means, when you believe it can happen to somebody who doesn't even exist.