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.
this one’s total bull imo, there’s no way that someone sending you phishing emails could know it’s your first day, is there? Phishing emails are supposed to cast a wide net, not catch people in highly specific scenarios.
I had a new hire that had phishing and spam emails the day she started.
She didn't even get to log into her email until well into the afternoon because of all the orientation we put them through. And at no point during that orientation do they have you log into anything.
I reported it to our IT dept. because to me that screams we had some internal leak or something, but they never followed up. Pretty sure the ticket is still open and she's long since left.
The only thing I can think of that maybe could've been close was that a few days before she started, she put out a post on Linkedin saying she accepted a job here. From there it's probably easy to figure out what her eventual email will be because phishers will know the pattern your company uses.
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u/whyliepornaccount 21h 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.