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Almost every day, my spouse and I have a conversation about spam. Not the canned meat, but the number of unwelcomed emails and text messages we receive. He gets several nefarious text messages a day, while I maybe get one a week. Phishing emails come in waves — right now, I’m getting daily warnings that my AV software license is about to expire. Blocking or filtering has limited success and, as often as not, flags wanted rather than unwanted messages.
Our ritual of comparing phishing attempts acts as informal security crowdsourcing. While most of these messages are clearly a poor attempt at social engineering, something realistic seeps in every so often.
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