Cooper Inc.was a company that operated primarily by sending out e-mails to its customers and requesting them to invest in their firm.Many such customers who invested later found that such a company didn't exist and that the company had merely acquired all their personal information for its own use.This scenario is an example of ______.

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In this scenario, Cooper Inc. is involved in phishing. Phishing is pretending to be financial institutions or companies in order to get individuals to reveal their personal information.