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Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished (www.troyhunt.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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From 2024, but funny to read....

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, there were two IT techs at one company who routinely asked for user passwords, in part because some of the software we used require setup in the user account. I'd say no, but I was on a few reply all emails where others provided their password to everyone on the email.

I forwarded those emails after the IT manager after the company email server got blacklisted by a client for our emails being used as an attack vector to phish.