Fake Phishing Emails At Work

[Zema Bus]

At work they periodically send out fake phishing emails to test employees. I got one today, it was pretty easy to spot. This one was an email saying "Your subscription to the New York Post is about to expire" and then there's a big "Renew Now!" button with a note under it saying the link was only good for two hours. The from address was also bogus. So I used their notification button in Outlook to report phishing emails, which brings up a dialog asking what type of malicious email I'm reporting, along with a free text area into which I mentioned all the sketchy stuff I saw. When I submitted it I got a message saying that I past the test, and to not tell anyone about their test while it was ongoing. Anyone who fails those tests have to take classes on phishing emails lol!

[Grogan]

New York Post is the most disgusting, right wing fellating propaganda organization, too

That's funny that it was a "test" but also insulting that they are playing such games.

I don't get any spam on my real email address (I'm pretty aggressive with spamassassin) but I also have an old local ISP mail account I pay to keep that gets a lot of crap. ISPs can't be so stringent. I only see html formatted as plain text (Sylpheed) so I examine the message source and headers to see what tomfoolery they are trying to pull on me.