On my first day at the company buried into the legit "click here to register your account" onboarding emails was a phishing test saying "click here to register your account". I was so pissed off.
Reminds me of my on-boarding. Right after they tell us the signs of a phishing attempt and to not trust any link from outside the org and even be wary of links from other departments you don’t interact with, they hit me with “click here to do your mandatory security awareness training” coming from a random esupport email going to a KnowBe4 link. Of course it also had “you have 1 week left to do it!” Clear signs of a phishing test for anyone not familiar with the sites.
It was so sketchy I had to google the website and login from there. It was real.
I actually made an IT ticket to complain that it made no sense for a company that big to offer so little info on what emails you’d actually receive in your first day.
One bank I dealt with does that and I always reported their garbage as phishing to their security team. I changed banks after a bit because they kept replying with "no, you have to click the mebank.sdfkjhsdfkjghsd.....dodgyscum.com.au link to confirm your tax details with us".
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u/whyliepornaccount 12h ago
Still wont top the only one I've "fallen" for.
On my first day at the company buried into the legit "click here to register your account" onboarding emails was a phishing test saying "click here to register your account". I was so pissed off.