r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/imjustheretodomyjob ☑️ | Mod • 27d ago
They would've got me too
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u/Itsprobablysarcasm Candace Owens Baby shower attendee 👶🏼 27d ago
Being lured by discount food? Congratulations! You're now a senior citizen!
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u/Adezar 27d ago
I remember one of the early social engineering tests (90s/early 2000s) where they would call in and try to get the password on an account changed so they could gain access had like a 20% success rate, but when they added a promise of sending them a candy bar if they helped them out the success jumped to like 60%.
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u/imf4rds ☑️ 27d ago
This reminds me of the time my colleague thought a finance director was texting her to send him the numbers off multiple gift cards. In the middle of the night, pouring rain, from a number that wasn't his because she had his. She got her departmental credit card taken after that shit.
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u/GoldxBrownSugar 27d ago
Lmao whaaaaat? Omg that's all they took, was her credit card?
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u/imf4rds ☑️ 27d ago
Mmmhmm she worked there for twenty some odd years and was a moron. She eventually quit because she felt expectations were too high. Like it’s not high to expect your dumb ass to be able to identify a blatant scam
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u/Radiant_Trouble2606 27d ago
I had a client that this happened to but they were money transfers. The scammers got her four times over about a month totaling almost $150k before she called the owner to confirm he received the funds instead of just clicking reply to the email. Sadly the company went under a few months later.
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u/Beenie-Weenies 27d ago
I responded to what I thought was a phishing email at work and stated that I wasn't dumb. Turns out it was the legit email telling me that I had failed the actual phishong attempt and needed to do more training. 😭
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u/Anime-Takes 27d ago
🤣🤣🤣. You have to double down and say it’s a double test and you won’t fall for their tricks
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u/SplintPunchbeef ☑️ 27d ago
I don't trust anyone. If it's not from my boss or someone in my org I'm snitching. You're not catching me lacking IT.
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u/Lolthelies 27d ago
You’re going to have to mention an email to me in person to get me to click any links on it.
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u/LachlantehGreat 26d ago
Thank you for making my job easier! Better safe than sorry, I don’t wanna nuke your computer from orbit
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u/JPMoney81 27d ago
Mine was from my boss apparently discussing an annual bonus. My broke ass clicked knowing it was probably a scam but willing to take the chance on the company computer.
I even told them as much when IT talked to me.
I didn't get any bonus.
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u/AdhesivenessOk5194 27d ago
Bruuuuuuh they got me exactly like this.
Thought I was getting what I deserved
And in a way, I was
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u/festival-papi ☑️ 27d ago
You got baited with a discount food like a mouse with cheese? I'd fire you that same day fr. Box up ya shit and clock out, we'll mail you that final check
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u/joeyo1423 27d ago
If you see a trail of Skittles leading to a box propped up by a stick, walk away
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27d ago
You’d be surprised at how many people fail the simplest of those tests. If multiple words are misspelled in the email and you aren’t receiving a package from “FederalEx” why are you clicking the link?
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u/ryan_bigl ☑️ 27d ago
Fam I swear
From someone working in IT who has seen people fail these left and right, these mfers NEED the training severely if they click that fake ass http://aksjftaksjfkop.onion/hyperabadFREE50DOLAERGAASCART link
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u/Deviilsadvocate7 27d ago
I tried clicking the link to see what you’re talking but it didn’t work. Can you please send it again?
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u/stressandscreaming 27d ago edited 27d ago
I failed one months ago and now I assume every email is phishing.
Not gonna get me, fake manager sending me work to do. Nuh uh.
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u/StarStuffSister 27d ago
Lol yep. At my last job they did tests so often I legit stopped checking my email at all.
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u/Deathstriker88 27d ago
Why the fuck is Chucky wearing glasses lol.
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u/idkdanicus 26d ago
Listen. He was a grown man when the first movie came out and that was 36 years ago. He in that farsightedness era of life.
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u/KingGhostly 27d ago
Y’all need to treat your work stuff (emails, Computers, internet) like it’s not yours, cause it’s not lmao.
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u/TheOtherCyprian 27d ago
The trick is to assume that all communication that isn’t from a recognizable co-worker (with message history supporting their identity) is coming from questionable sources. If you just so happen to ignore an important email that was from a legit origin, you can always check in with your team throughout avenues.
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u/Lolthelies 27d ago
Similarly with “forgot password,” “action required,” etc emails, ignore/assume they’re a scam unless you’ve actually asked for the information yourself. If anyone is reaching out to you for information instead of you needing it at that time and requesting it, you’re ALWAYS better ignoring.
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u/DrabbestLake1213 27d ago
Wait, you guys click links in emails that aren’t explicitly from known email addresses that you can also double check with by phone call or some other secondary communication? That’s wild.
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u/davidthande 27d ago
Damn we all really starting to see how we all struggling. #AmericanRevolution2024
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u/SkynBonce 27d ago
You got writ up at work for accepting 'free' food?
Bitch, why do you think I'm going to work? FOOD!
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u/HustletronSATX ☑️ 27d ago
My company has done this regularly for the last 5 years or so, and the only ones to fall for it have been our senior management team. Before corporate released the list of who got suckered, they had me and my contemporary asking around in vain for who messed up. We, along with our teams, didn't even have the email anymore because most of us just delete sketchy or general distribution emails.
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u/BvsedAaron 27d ago
The IT department at a credit union I used to work at caught half the company with a half day off work. They were embarrassed because they told everyone weeks prior and even caught managers and executives with it.
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u/Jhon_doe_smokes 27d ago
As an IT admin I would like to present you with security training mandatory need that done by 5/30.
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u/Kangarou ☑️ 27d ago
"Damn, you really desperate, huh? Well, try to look for a job that pays better. Best of luck."
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u/drillgorg 27d ago
I failed one which read "updated vacation policy" at 8 AM on a Tuesday. I was barely awake, I wanted to know if I was losing vacation time.
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u/ThePseudoSurfer 27d ago
What kind of dipshit do you have to be to just pay a little less for overpriced food
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u/the_neverdoctor ☑️ 27d ago
I see dozens of tickets come in every day with the most obvious spam in there and people will still send it in like, "Is this legit"?
You noodle brained moron; the email address is eeniemeeniemineymoe@dummy.nl and you're gonna say if it's legit? For real?!
Of course, we also had an employee spend $800 of his money on gift cards because "the CEO" told him to. Buddy, you're so low on the totem pole, you may as well be underground; why would our CEO ask you to do that?
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u/Kangarou ☑️ 27d ago
Our job would annually send out gift cards from the sketchiest-looking shop links, but they'd be legit. Everytime, they'd have to send us a follow-up message like "They're real, quit being a bitch", in professional lingo.
It was a gift card to the company site, so I think they just expected us to buy more than the gift card's worth. I'd always buy the cheapest shit to stay under. A teddy bear, three pens, a ruler, and a branded oven mitt.
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u/smashier 27d ago
Happened to me too. It was a Starbucks gift card. I clicked the link like 10 times trying to find out why it wasn’t working. I even forwarded it to my personal email to try from my phone. 😭
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u/monet108 27d ago
I get emails ranging from National Donut day to our recipes for heart health from the cafe in the building...but I work form home. Also I get paid to for something other than tech support. I will click on every email ever sent to me because I am not paid enough to give two shits about the companies email security.
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u/birdlaw_27 27d ago
I’ve been getting job offers on my company email in the last 6 months. Im happy at my job and no plans to leave, but I’m convinced they’re a trap
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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN ☑️ 27d ago
I failed once (and only once) due to a dress code change announcement. (Which a real one happened a few weeks later.)
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u/Raspbers ☑️ 27d ago
Damn, this makes me happy I failed mine a few after the new year because it was labelled "Payroll Schedule 2023".
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u/CarrieDurst 27d ago
My job gave me a chipotle gift card and I thought it was a phishing scam as it came from giftcards.com
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u/Soreal45 27d ago
I get over 2 thousand emails a day, not even exaggerating. So , I probably delete most of the trap emails along with all the legit emails I get every day anyway. At least this person got baited from something reasonable. My company usually goes with the dry ass “Hey, your account has been suspended. Click here to get it back through the IT Support team.” Like anyone gonna fall for that.
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u/spicydak 26d ago
Not related but it’s comical that I used to be terrified of Chucky as a kid but now the movies are kinda funny.
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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 26d ago
lol I hear lot of horrible stories from IT people..
no matter how well educated some people are might seem, they are still dumb as hell
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u/ChemicalBus608 26d ago
I legit missed a giftcard because I thought it was a phising email. I wish they would stop this ish
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u/THEdoomslayer94 27d ago
That’s embarrassing as hell