Re:My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:33PM
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> Sometimes it feels like companies are just helping scammers and I don't know why.
There's a lot of similarities to scamming and marketing. In particular, they both have essentially the same desire for well-designed messages.
Re:My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education
by godelski on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:32PM
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True, but I find that highly problematic.
It's not a good system if it's hard to differentiate. We should be encouraging making money by providing meaningful value to the people buying the product. To get those things aligned. I think we engineers can play a role too. While not having the ultimate decision I think speaking up and just pushing here and there to prioritize product quality over profits goes a long way. In the long run, I think quality and profits are usually aligned, though I think rarely in the short term
In Gmail or Thunderbird they don't just show the PDF and since they display the sender differently it makes it obviously a scam.
Sometimes it feels like companies are just helping scammers and I don't know why.