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Re:My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education by godelski on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:23PM (#44595735)
Not a bank, but Apple Mail inline displays PDFs. I've been getting these PayPal Bitcoin scam emails lately and checking from Apple Mail they look legitimate. Problem is, I don't have a PayPal account...

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.

Re:My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:33PM (#44597875)
> 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 (#44599506)
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