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What do you do when an unsolicited e-mail lands in your work inbox? Unless you’re a spam analyst, you will most certainly probably just delete it. Paradoxically, that’s exactly what some phishers want you to do, and as a result, our mail traps have been seeing more and more e-mails lately that appear to be notifications about obviously unwanted messages.
How it works
Cybercriminals, relying on users’ inexpert knowledge of antispam technologies, send notifications to company employees about e-mails that allegedly arrived at their address and were quarantined. Such messages look something like this: