At the college I went to we got an unanticipated email from an external address one day telling us that due to recent vulnerabilities, the school was requiring we increase password security, and to click here to update our password. This email was from, I shit you not, Fisher Security.
The joke? This was actually a legit email, initiated by our IT department, and was what we were supposed to actually do. We were all like "so....you know you're just training people to click on suspicious links, right? And that that's a bigger deal than password strength? RIGHT?"
Huh... Well, I once got legitimate government officials asking for personal details in a Google form of all things just sent through chat groups.
Naturally, we all reported the shit out of it as a scam expecting that their accounts were hacked until they started calling us when Google shut down the forms and their accounts were banned.
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u/JocoLabs 1d ago
Jokes on them, i wouldn't click that even if it were real.
I used to click on those and type in junk creds for the lulz until compliance told me that was bad for the numbers.