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re: It amazes me that people still fall for phishing emails
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:16 am to anc
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:16 am to anc
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It amazes me that people still fall for phishing emails
I send these emails as 50% of my job...You got a shitty one...I guarantee I would get someone like you to click a link otherwise corporations like yours wouldn't pay me to try..
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Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:18 am to lsunurse
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It's bad if they have already been doing a lot of education of employees to avoid these types of emails.
I mean every company has janitors and other low end employees especially very large companies. You aren’t getting six sigma here.
The email also came from someone with the Ceo’s Name on it. I’ve yet to get a phishing scheme like that, given I don’t work for a Fortune 500.
I’d like to see the results if the email was sent from a Nigerian prince with questionable grammar.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:20 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I send these emails as 50% of my job...You got a shitty one...I guarantee I would get someone like you to click a link otherwise corporations like yours wouldn't pay me to try..
Interesting. The email we got about it said more will come and they will be more sophisticated. It indicated that we have an outside company conducting this - could be you!
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:20 am to johnnyrocket
We are constantly getting emails from IT security reminding us the types of emails we need to NOT click on and to immediately report to IT before deleting the email.
And yet when we all got that email last week(the one I mentioned from "IT services") there were people that still clicked on it.
And yet when we all got that email last week(the one I mentioned from "IT services") there were people that still clicked on it.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:21 am to anc
My company has the same issue. Our CEO fell for one and compromised our entire network. Anyone who actually pays attention to the text in an e-mail can pick up the grammatical errors before clicking on a link.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:25 am to Cump11b
The email we got a few months ago that said it was from our CEO....was from an email address with .uk
Should have been a massive red flag right there, but I think some still clicked on it. I didn't get that email...it was only sent to those in leadership/management positions.
Should have been a massive red flag right there, but I think some still clicked on it. I didn't get that email...it was only sent to those in leadership/management positions.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:25 am to lsunurse
quote:The more pressing question is-
My ex fell for a Nigerian scam. Looking back...I should have dumped him the second he admitted he was taken by a Nigerian scam.
Did YOU ever fall for a Nigerian scam?
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:27 am to soccerfüt
Nope
He said he was selling something on ebay(this was early 2000s). Got scammed with the whole "give you this check for a lot more than what you are selling this for, send us the rest back" scam. He got scammed for I think it was 7k iirc.
He said he was selling something on ebay(this was early 2000s). Got scammed with the whole "give you this check for a lot more than what you are selling this for, send us the rest back" scam. He got scammed for I think it was 7k iirc.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:32 am to anc
I too work for a large corp. IT has contracted with a 3rd party to set up phishing traps. They have created some good ones.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:33 am to lsunurse
Ouch.
I'm glad you traded him in on a better model.
I'm glad you traded him in on a better model.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:35 am to anc
My company does this too. If they fall for the phish they have to do some CE stuff as punishment. We've had 2 people in my small office fall for it already.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:36 am to AUCE05
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I too work for a large corp. IT has contracted with a 3rd party to set up phishing traps. They have created some good ones.
At my old company we actually had a report phishing icon in Outlook that would send the emails directly to IT. If it was part of the campaign to stop phishing you would get a 'Congratulations, you passed the test' message.
Shockingly a person within IT always fell for the emails. All the time.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:37 am to lsunurse
I have gotten an e-mail like that. The glaring grammatical errors were an immediate red flag. However, before IT could send out an alert, someone in the building clicked the link and followed the email's request by "confirming their bank account and routing number" along with their network password. Their stupidity shut things down for a bit.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:38 am to here4thepopcorn
They did one that said something to the effect "the attached invoice is ready for review." And sent it at the end of the month. Devastated everyone.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 9:38 am to MLCLyons
quote:How do they fit?
We've had 2 people in my small office fall for it already.
Posted on 11/1/18 at 10:26 am to anc
I was trying to buy a UPS battery backup on CL earlier this week. Emailed the person, and they told me where they were in town. I agreed to meet them at a large store, and after that, they said I needed to send them a copy of my ID for security reasons.
Really makes you wonder how many people fall for that
Really makes you wonder how many people fall for that
Posted on 11/1/18 at 10:26 am to anc
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This post was edited on 11/1/18 at 10:27 am
Posted on 11/1/18 at 10:36 am to Hammertime
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I was trying to buy a UPS battery backup on CL earlier this week. Emailed the person, and they told me where they were in town. I agreed to meet them at a large store, and after that, they said I needed to send them a copy of my ID for security reasons.
Its mostly old and ignorant obviously. But even at 2% success there's some big time money to be made with very little effort.
A lot of these scammers really are pretty dumb though, if someone was smart they could really steal a lot more.
A friend's dad that is a Dentist wired money for a nice boat he found on Craigslist, I'm guessing $60k or more. The idiot kept the money in the original bank account that was stateside, and the police had multiple reports on this. So they were able to track lock the bank account and track the scammer down within like 15 hours.
No idea how he was that stupid, both the dentist and the scammer. Dentist amazing had his money back within 2 weeks. Lucky as hell.
This post was edited on 11/1/18 at 10:37 am
Posted on 11/1/18 at 10:42 am to anc
Part of me thinks someone in IT responds to them just so they can all have job security. Used to work for a large hospital system and phishing emails were frequent. There would always be obvious signs (misspelled words, bad punctuation, generic wording of things that should have been more specific). Regardless, 2 days later would come an IT email saying there had been responses to it....
Posted on 11/1/18 at 10:47 am to anc
I get about one per month that attempts to look like it's from our CEO asking if I'm in the office and able to send an urgent wire transfer to one of our critical suppliers. I'm the Financial Controller of our US entity.
Our CEO is located in Europe and I've only spoken to him once in about five years. He probably doesn't even know my name. We also don't make very large payments to external suppliers since we're a service company. For me, it's obvious that it's phishing but I could see how they may be able to get a few bites here and there.
Our CEO is located in Europe and I've only spoken to him once in about five years. He probably doesn't even know my name. We also don't make very large payments to external suppliers since we're a service company. For me, it's obvious that it's phishing but I could see how they may be able to get a few bites here and there.
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