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I got tripped up by one recently. It supposedly came from our IT staff (which it obviously did). It used a legit company email address, but it

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Jul 20 '23, 12:24

it used a different IT staff email address (ours is usually "helpdesk@. . . " and this was ITstaff@. . . . I had been out on vacation and thought maybe they changed it while I was out (they have changed it before). I thought using an internal email address was a bit too far .

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that's tough. Using an internal address certainly tests the risk of being tripped up by a compromised account but if your accounts are getting - oblique Jul 20, 13:06 2
- hell half the time, I'm deleting legit emails cause I don't care - not a chance I'm going to respond to something off a tad. -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 20, 13:08 1
  - In this case they said it was time to replace my laptop (which it very legitimately could be because it's probably getting old) and they wanted to - pmb Jul 20, 13:20

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I got tripped up by one recently. It supposedly came from our IT staff (which it obviously did). It used a legit company email address, but it

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