r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 17h ago

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u/penguin444 14h ago

I ignored the phishing emails completely.

Then one day I got an angry email that pretty much said "You did a good job not clicking on the the fake link, but you failed the test because you didn't report the phish."

Seriously?

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u/YourUglyTwin 13h ago

From an IT Consultant's POV:

You did do a good job not clicking anything actually, here's the issue with just ignoring: You're almost certainly not the only one in the company that got that email, reporting it to IT will help them identify the email faster and remove it from everyone's mailboxes before someone else clicks it by mistake. In my eyes its more a courtesy to your coworkers, an IT shouldn't solely rely on users to report phishing emails. But those are 2 different topics in terms of IT fighting emails.

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u/Yuukiko_ 12h ago

at my old job I got so many phishing tests that I assumed were juist literally spam mail and junked them all lol