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It's not just the marketing side, every customer facing thing corporations can outsource is being pipelined through the same kind of ad-like machinery. After c
by gxnxcxcx 5y ago
It's not just the marketing side, every customer facing thing corporations can outsource is being pipelined through the same kind of ad-like machinery.
After considerable effort educating the non-technically inclined members of the family to check URLs to avoid shenanigans, cue our ISP sending very important confirmation links via SMS (bad enough) pointing to isp-name.onelink.me, amid a particularly active wave of SMS phishing scams earlier this year. One of the top 10 telecom corps worldwide in size and the mf'ers couldn't bother using their own domain.
- Nextgrid 5y agoSpam filters should catch up and filter out all that crap as malicious.
- bob778 5y agoThe problem is that, by definition, it isn’t malicious: it’s just incredibly poorly planned legitimate communications. Filtering it out will just make it harder for users to get key information.
- smolder 5y agoI think that might be the point; it would create a headache for the company and its users and when they do the retrospective they'll find that use of unverifiable domains was the mistake. Or using the vendor who uses them was the mistake. Filtering that catches "false positives" which are indiscernible from phishing is 10x more likely to curb this practice than trying to educate anyone about the problem.
- Nextgrid 5y agoIt is - marketing platform links often track you (which is in breach of the GDPR btw), conceal the true target of the links (so you can't tell whether the final target is legitimate) and most marketing platforms are for some reason obsessed with HTTP even when the final target link is HTTPS, exposing you to risk on insecure networks.