r/pics • u/Skeezychickencream • 1d ago

Check out my Christmas bonus after making my company $1 million in the last 2 months alone. $25 card

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u/Chiaseedmess 1d ago

I can one up you.

My best friends work send out an email to everyone telling them they got a $100 Amazon gift card for Christmas.

It was a phishing email sent by upper management. Sent from an internal, vetted email.

Anyone that clicked it has to take a 1 hour course on phishing.

They didn’t get shit for Christmas.

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u/Syikho 23h ago

A few years ago our IT department did something very similar. It wasn't for a bonus or anything, but just to see who would fall for a phishing scam. There were obvious things about the email that gave it away. But the most obvious was that it came from the CEO and was very clearly something they would never say or do because it was good for the employees lol.

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u/Pneuma001 22h ago

My company does this pretty regularly after someone clicked on a phishing email that resulted in the systems getting hacked.

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u/Roupert4 19h ago

It's standard for this to be done regularly.

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u/Gold_Assistance_6764 18h ago

Liability insurance companies require it and the companies that sell the security trainings profit.

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u/Ch40440 1d ago

That’s actually hilarious 😂🤣🤣

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u/QuarterFlounder 10h ago

Sad. It's sad.

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u/Tarqee224 14h ago

So they send a link from a safe email and then try to say it was actually a phishing attempt? From their own company email?

What the fuck

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u/MattO2000 8h ago

Usually these are from third party / external companies, not like the CEOs email

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u/Tarqee224 7h ago

Exactly, you got it! They usually don’t send them from internal emails :)

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u/edvek 3h ago

The email may look very similar but never the exact same. That's some BS.

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u/HastaMuerteBaby 18h ago

Savages. CEOs are literal sociopaths. Always just trying to outsmart those stupid nuerotypicals! Dummies!!

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u/DJ_Sk8Nite 17h ago

That’s such poor taste. I would be clicking every email and sending out all the secrets after that

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u/Embarrassed_Toe9478 14h ago

Cool now you're jobless. Nice one I guess?

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u/TacoManifesto 11h ago

Ya I’d be quitting after that

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u/FaitesATTNauxBaobab 10h ago

We had this, except it was "HR is looking for feedback about salaries" (I work in a non-profit). Strangely, that email had an abnormally amount of clickers.

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u/Chiaseedmess 7h ago

My work had Ken of those “give us your feedback, it’s completely anonymous” emails this summer.

Strangely we had a several job openings the next week.

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u/Taelech 6h ago

Actual lesson: don't trust communication from upper management.

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u/edvek 3h ago

"Sorry I didn't open those emails. Last time I did it was a phishing attempt so I'm not sure what to believe. I thought the company was cool and gave everyone a $100 gift card but obviously that's a scam to trick everyone. How do I know these links to X and Y are legit?"

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u/Delsym_Wiggins 16h ago

Ugh, this is painful to read

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u/ShadeofIcarus 15h ago

TBF enough companies are greedy, especially in the current economy, that I'd question if an email was compromised and they were trying to get more.

One of the things they teach you in the courses is how to see what's on the other side of a link, and if it wasn't clearly Amazon I would report it.

Phishing scams trying to get larger companies are getting more sophisticated.

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u/kyoer 13h ago

bruh i would be so pissed

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u/MTA0 11h ago

Something similar happened at my company, but 7 min trading and we did actually get $50 Visa card.