I work in Information Security

Feb 15, 2025 9:20 PM

Who would like to hear some heavily sanitized, names changed to protect the guilty (and myself), Day-In-The-Life stories about some of the absolute madness I see reported, and done by the 28,000+ users I support.

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phishing

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Haha tell

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Only of you change all the names to Muppets

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Challenge. ACCEPTED.

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Sigh no prince ever contacted me, i only get mail from people who have inherited 100000000 and need help to transfer the money

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Sadly, phishing emails do have seasons, and it seems "Hi, I'm Ms and my dear husband has left me billions of dollars but you MUST help me with it." is back on the menu.

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My favorite is still "hi mr pervert, i have hacked your computer and webcam with vid of you masturbating to sick porn" once they even included a password i havent used in like 20 years.

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Those have actually gotten a lot worse. Sextortion emails like that now actually send an email with the title as your address, and then that copied information. Its baseless, but they start out strong with a literal address, and then a picture of your house from google maps.

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