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> Do you think youre going to get scammed and send a fraudulent Western Union transfer?

I know for a fact that there are targeted phishing campaigns aimed at users of specific services such as LinkedIn and GitHub and Twitter and etc, primarily because I've been targeted by them.

> What do you think the venn diagram overlap between "uses a specific email for each service" and "gets phished" is?

I know for a fact that the Venn diagram of phishing attempts sent to email accounts that are not used by those services is practically zero.

Do you understand how trivial it is to identify and filter out these attacks when they are sent to addresses that are already known beforehand that are not used for that purpose?




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