this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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In the last two months I have gotten about a dozen emails on my work account that tripped enough red flags for me to think they were phishing attempts. It turns out that they were all legit and failure to respond could be determental to still working there. Good thing our boss was looking out for us.
What I have learned is that I should respond to any half-assed email and ignore the years of annual training I've recieved to the contrary.
I've definitely gotten good at identifying phishing attempts from our Cybersecurity team.
I just mark any slughtly fishy mail as phising and send it to the helpdesk. Either I get s thank you back, or a „its legit“. either way, I dont need to worry about it anymore
I got a pretty suspicious email a few weeks ago and flagged it. Later day that our sysadmin was like "oh hey that was legit, has started using a new marketing firm so they look like that." I just said "Sounds like spam to me I'm going to keep on flagging it." and he just responded with a frown emoji. Full disclosure we're decent work buddies and I haven't actually gotten any more emails from that company so he may have actually filtered it lol.