What is this "Pre-Texting"?

[Killer Joe]

I heard on the radio the other day that a company in California is being sued by the state of CA for using "pre-texting" as a way to get a hold of employee's phone records without their permission under the guise of being someone else like a lawyer or something.

Didn't that used to be called "Being Duped" or flat out "Lying"? Oh, so now it's called "Pre-texting".

So when "41" said, "Read my lips, no new taxes" he was really "pre-texting"?

 

[Nightstalkers]

Basically it's like phone phishing. Someone calls you up acting like a telemarketer or your bank (something along those lines) and gets your info then uses it to get into your telephone, bank, and other records.

 

[Killer Joe]

Okay then, why give a weird name like "Pre-Texting"? Lying, swindleling, cheating are already words we understand now we have to have NEW ones?

 

[Spiderman]

'Cause apparently it was quasi-legal when a private investigator did it...