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> Generally, even the most internet-savvy age group, are vastly ill-equipped.

It’s a losing battle when even the tools (web browsers hiding URLs by default, heck even Firefox on iOS does it now!) and companies (making posters with nothing more than QR codes or search terms) are what they’re up against….

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And with commercial software like Outlook being so ubiquitous and absolutely HORRENDOUS with url obfuscation, formatting, “in network” contacts, and seemingly random spam filtering.

Our company does phishing tests like most, and their checklist of suspicious behavior is 1 to 1 useless. Every item on the list is either 1: something that our company actually does with its real emails or 2: useless because outlook sucks a huge wang. So I basically never open emails and report almost everything I get. I’m sure the IT department enjoys the 80% false report rate.

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