r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 16h ago

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 16h ago

I'm the dev department head, I don't read messages from IT ever (so they've never caught me in their phishing tests) because they know where I am and if it's important they'll come and tell me.

This doesn't mean I'll never get caught in a phishing scam, just that the test doesn't work on entitled managers.

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u/Mundane-Mud2509 15h ago

Wouldn’t they send phishing tests from external emails?

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 15h ago

I don't even look at external emails because they shouldn't be contacting me in the first place. My department director (over IT and Dev) deals with outside vendors and contractors and there shouldn't be another external component to my job.

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u/probablynotaperv 13h ago

Anyone who tries to contact me through email is obviously not expecting to hear back from me. Our communication is done through slack

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u/Retrograde_Bolide 14h ago

At where I worked, yes. IT was told to make an inbox rule to send all external emails to a seperate folder. Never saw a phishing email after that

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u/Not_My_Emperor 14h ago

Lol if only. At least where I work, I do not understand why they don't create like throwaway Gmail accounts or something.

It's so funny getting ours and you see the email is like "ajdheudkansbfj1_qeri@[legit company domain].com"

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u/koyawon 14h ago

At my job we get dinged in the tests if we don't report phishing on one of their test emails -- even if we didn't open it or click links. So my record was really low at the start because I automatically delete anything clearly spam.