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> I have yet to see a scam which would fool me. And I have seen many already. That's because you have never been targeted. It's that simple. There is a small

> I have yet to see a scam which would fool me. And I have seen many already. That's because you have never been targeted. It's that simple. There is a small segment of society who are: a) savvy, and b) not actively engaged in commerce/business/community/career/friends/family, so any solicitation over email is likely suspicious. Everyone else is at some level of risk. And sometimes it only takes one failure.

mlang23 6y ago
Interesting. How do you know that I have never been targeted. Did you ask your crystal ball? Or is it that you just know everything? I am amazed and bow to your skills, great magician. Also, implying that I am not actively engaged with anything is a pretty personal attack. Reserve your patronising behaviour for your children please.
aidenn0 6y ago
Even untargeted scams can fool a savvy person by coincidence. I followed my accountant when he switched accounting firms. Within two weeks of that, I got a generic accounting email SharePoint document share. It linked to the actual ms domain and used some redirection trickery to end up on a pixel perfect copy of the office 365 login screen. I only didn't get scammed because my password manager refused to auto fill. Had the email come after I had learned the name of the new accounting firm, I never would have even clicked on the link.
- ghaff 6y ago
  >Even untargeted scams can fool a savvy person by coincidence. And you can pick them up 99 times out of 100. But that 100th time, you're tired, rushing to get out the door, etc. and they get you. I'm definitely more cautious than I was when phishing was just starting to be a big thing. Back then I don't think I ever fell for anything but there was once or twice when I wasn't really thinking and started down the path of providing information.

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> I have yet to see a scam which would fool me. And I have seen many already. That's because you have never been targeted. It's that simple. There is a small

by quesera 6y ago

mlang23 6y ago
Interesting. How do you know that I have never been targeted. Did you ask your crystal ball? Or is it that you just know everything? I am amazed and bow to your skills, great magician. Also, implying that I am not actively engaged with anything is a pretty personal attack. Reserve your patronising behaviour for your children please.
aidenn0 6y ago
Even untargeted scams can fool a savvy person by coincidence. I followed my accountant when he switched accounting firms. Within two weeks of that, I got a generic accounting email SharePoint document share. It linked to the actual ms domain and used some redirection trickery to end up on a pixel perfect copy of the office 365 login screen. I only didn't get scammed because my password manager refused to auto fill. Had the email come after I had learned the name of the new accounting firm, I never would have even clicked on the link.
- ghaff 6y ago
  >Even untargeted scams can fool a savvy person by coincidence. And you can pick them up 99 times out of 100. But that 100th time, you're tired, rushing to get out the door, etc. and they get you. I'm definitely more cautious than I was when phishing was just starting to be a big thing. Back then I don't think I ever fell for anything but there was once or twice when I wasn't really thinking and started down the path of providing information.