I thought my friend was being paranoid about his email filters

Honestly, I figured he was just overthinking things when he set up a rule to flag any email with the word 'invoice' in the subject. Then last month, a fake invoice from 'Amazon Support' got past my basic spam filter and I almost clicked it. His filter caught the same exact email and quarantined it because the sender address didn't match Amazon's real domain. Ngl, that one detail changed my whole view. Has anyone else had a simple filter rule save them from a close call?

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jamie_white1mo ago

Read an article about how scammers are getting better at copying real company email addresses, but they often use a letter substitution trick. Like using a lowercase L instead of a capital i, so 'support@amazon.com' looks right at a glance. A simple filter checking for weird characters in the sender name would catch that. Your friend's rule about the domain is basically doing the same smart thing. Makes me want to go check my own filters now.

the_hayden1mo ago

My cousin's filter caught a fake shipping notice last week. Honestly, I still think most people overcomplicate their email setup.

nancybailey20d ago

Did you see that article about how scammers are using AI to write their phishing emails now too?