This is my problem with almost every "report spam/fraud/etc" flow. It's always a digital shrug, and then nothing happens.
Only one site I know of ever had it right: Instagram, up to about 2021. When you reported an account or post, you would actually be notified when they took action, which would usually take about a week and be something like "the account was removed". It was so satisfying to see a spam account get taken down after a report. But, they removed that in favor of the "hey thanks for the report we've tossed it right in the trash lol" user flow that every other site uses. Unfortunate.
The Canada Revenue Agency (tax collectors) once called me up about something. They literally said "To verify your identity, please give me your social insurance number". It's hard to blame people when actual government agencies are training people to be phished.
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They're training taxpayers to put in large amounts of extremely sensitive personal information into a third-party domain called "id.me". Even if you trust the private company, I think it's insane they didn't at least whitelabel the process through a *.irs.gov domain!
(For those curious, the .me TLD is run by the country of Montenegro. Control over DNS has some security implications for phishing and man in the middle attacks.)
Equifax had its entire response to its breach on a different domain, the kind of thing we tell people to watch out for.
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This looks like phishing. But it is legitimate.
Most have been fixed but my current pet peeve is receiving email newsletters from these companies with tracking links. I get it, you're trying to measure something. But they're genuinly sending you links like sx4pv.mjt.lu/lnk/EEEAAAA-3434-asdfasdfasdf
AT&T finally copped to enormous breach this month. In their notification to individuals (sorry, sign up for identity protection, etc), they made sure to let you know official email always comes from: att@message.att-mail.com
...an email address and subdomain that have never contacted me before on a sketchy sounding domain that doesn't match the service (hosted at https://att.com). The email links to experianidworks.com which asks for email, address, and SSN upon clicking the CTA.
But even if you follow all of these best practices there are still powerful attack vectors. A threat actor could host their phishing page on an unrelated (compromised) domain with good domain reputation, in that case you wouldn't even know about that site until the first email or SMS hits your customers. Or the threat actor could use one of the many file-hosting or website services to create their site and host it on a shared third-party domain with perfect domain reputation (e.g. amazonaws.com).
And then there's incentive: It's no the companies that suffer financial losses, it is their customers. If you were talking about their employees being phished that would be a different story. Same thing for Google Safe Browsing: Their incentive is to protect against most of the obvious phishing, without any false positives, ever. If they are slow to detect something they won't suffer any losses. If they generate a False Positive their Chrome browser might suffer significant reputational damage if a popular legitimate domain is blocked.
This is a huge issue and it seems like we've just given up on it. There used to be EV SSL certs, but they are essentially dead now. There's BIMI for email, but support is mixed, and only partly addresses the issue.