YUP; I've almost hit the link on some shipment phishing scams ("Your international shipment is en route, please read & sign these documents, click here...") when they arrive at a time when I'm actually awaiting a shipment. If I had been in a bit more of a rush and had not taken the extra 15 seconds to check the details and discovered they didn't match, I'd have likely clicked through & been pwned. Such close calls happened several times.
It is really pernicious, and attacks one of human's weakest capabilities, which is maintaining constant vigilance. Almost every neuroscience study shows that basic vigilance is easy, but maintaining that high vigilance over time is nearly impossible. So a constant rain of random attacks, only one of which needs to work, will see success. Ugh.
I swear there’s something going on with those fake shipping emails- I only ever get them when I’m waiting for a parcel- and no, I haven’t been entering my tracking number into any websites. Very suspicious.
Yes, now that you mention it, the gaps between these phishing emails don't seem random, but do seem to come around the same time as an actual shipment (not enough data, but...).
I mostly see fake-DHL being phished, even when the shipment is coming on another carrier. You?
It is really pernicious, and attacks one of human's weakest capabilities, which is maintaining constant vigilance. Almost every neuroscience study shows that basic vigilance is easy, but maintaining that high vigilance over time is nearly impossible. So a constant rain of random attacks, only one of which needs to work, will see success. Ugh.