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SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
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Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#42Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
right, so on the topic of "phishing emails designed to elicit enough emotion that you forget to consider the button might be a phish", the headline itself of this blog post is doing the exact same thing, really. The headline should be, "Phishing scams launched through SendGrid exploit deep political sentiments to achieve success" or something like that.
but that would be clear and very boring. nobody would read your blog then. A headline that very obviously implies Sendgrid the company supports ICE, and so much so that they are emailing all their customers about it, clicks galore. Well done.
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#43Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.
Mods regularly rewrite titles to improve clarity and this is probably a good candidate.
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
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Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#45Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#46In the 1920s and 30s they had mailing campaigns recruiting to join the SA. Same principle.
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#47Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
Rather ironic to complain about phishing attempts with clickbait (which, I largely think of as phishing's kid brother).
You say ironic I say fitting.
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#48We've been getting similar phishing emails claiming to be from SendGrid, except they're along the lines of "we're adding a rainbow banner to the footer of all emails to show LGBT support, click here to opt out". It's especially funny because SendGrid isn't even one of our vendors.
right but nobody clicked the button on that one
Re: SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
#49In the 1920s and 30s they had mailing campaigns recruiting to join the SA. Same principle.
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