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I think its naive to believe that even the most tech savvy are immune to phishing. People get tired, hurried, stressed - and during those moments anyone's guar
by frogfuzion 10y ago
I think its naive to believe that even the most tech savvy are immune to phishing. People get tired, hurried, stressed - and during those moments anyone's guard can be let down.
- soneca 10y agoAnd then that phishing email with the right theme and message arrives with a perfect timing, when you were just expecting an email like that. It happens.
- cyberferret 10y agoYes - I am vigilant to almost a paranoid level, but one day a phishing email came from "Australia Post" purporting to be a missed delivery notification on a day that I was expecting a delivery and thought I had missed the driver. I was in a hurry, and frustrated and was a millisecond away from clicking the link when some gut feeling told me that something was not right. Closest I've come to date, and it worried me. EDIT: Sorry, I meant to respond to @soneca below, as this relates to phishing emails arriving with impeccable timing...
- sixothree 10y agoThis describes my experience many years ago. I woke up early and groggily read my through my emails. One of which was an angry message from an ebay buyer about a package not having arrived on time. I clicked and logged in and got an error message. Examining the email it was certainly phishing. Changed password immediately. I believe this may have been before ebay took phishing seriously by included your real name in the emails etc.