• Moonrise2473@feddit.itOP
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    3 months ago

    They know my name, yet they wrote “Dear Google Workspace Administator” as the most generic phishing attempts.

    • rxin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Yeah actually, any non-spam email should always address you by name and that’s a rule. Many services also have this in their e-mail footers “This e-mail is for XXXXX” etc. because a typical mass sent garbage mail won’t know your name.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        3 months ago

        When I worked the email marketing opt out queue I relied heavily on the “this email was sent to [email address]” because 9/10 reports that the opt out didn’t work, they had setup forwarding from one email address to another