We all like to think we are smart, independent, in full control of our lives, and there is no way any of us would fall for a financial scam, like those lonely old seniors do, because “that happens to them, not to me, because I am smart.”
But the truth is, even smart people fall for it, people with master degrees, people who work in academia, people running large business… Even I could fall for this.
And how did you learn to recognize it?
Yep lol. They have a second system that rewrites all links in emails to go through a scanner, but as a side effect that obfuscates them as well.
I got some of those! If ai hadn’t personally known the sender, I would have reported them…