this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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The only phishing e-mails I receive are from my employer. As a matter of process I report these e-mails like a diligent lackey, then upon receiving an e-mail congratulating me on passing their test, I report that one too. I think the non-test phishing reports undergo manual review so I hope I'm wasting someone's time somewhere in payback.
Still haven't forgiven them for a tone-deaf 'we care about you during COVID' phishing e-mail they sent when everyone was genuinely struggling.
Same here, and I got annoyed at these emails filtering through the different rules that I have set up. I realized that the test emails all had some values in the headers to indicate them as such, so I set up a rule to filter them out to a separate folder. It obviously defeats the point, but it's much less annoying.
Need to take it a step further. IIRC, they usually use a tracking link with your address encoded into it, so they know who clicked the link. Need to crack whatever encoding they use, and start "clicking" links for senior leadership.