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Companies will do that and then send links with url shorteners for totally legit things and wonder why everyone ignores then.
My company has to send out emails like: "The mandatory training email is not phishing, even though it is flagged [EXTERNAL] by the system."
Me: "That's what a fishing email would say."
We must be coworkers. They literally did this to our group yesterday for an external survey. And I refuse to fill it out.
This is every company at this point lol
No, no, the point of the URL shortener IS so that everyone ignores them; they've been trained to. "No one RSVP'd to the pizza party so we canceled it. Also we are a great employer who lists things like Pizza Parties as job perks! They're totally real!"
Lol whenever I have to deal with DHL to pay for some import fee or whatever I feel like I'm being scammed. Website like like it's from 1998, wants my credit card details, certificate errors etc.