Urgent: your password expires today at 5:00 PM
Dear user,
as part of our move to a new system, every password that hasn't been confirmed expires today at 5:00 PM. After that your account is locked and you lose access to email.
Confirming takes less than a minute.
IT Department
https://account-verify.com/confirm?id=4471
Hooked. No harm done this time.
In a real campaign, this is where a short lesson on this type of attack would open. Here's what should have stopped you:
Exactly right. You reported it.
The report goes to the security team and shows up in the results. Here's what gives the email away:
- 1The sender isn't from your company: account-verify.com.
- 2A deadline a few hours away. Rushing you is the oldest trick there is.
- 3“Dear user”. Your IT team knows your name.
- 4The button points to someone else's domain. Hover before you click.