Showerthought: I ignored our HR portal's learning modules for 2 years, then one on phishing saved me from a fake CEO email asking for $4,000 in gift cards

James Bell · 2026-10-16T17:50:02.738985+00:00

The email looked real, same font and signature as our CFO, but the module taught me to check the reply-to address and it was a random Gmail. Has anyone else had a training module pay off like that, or did I just get lucky?

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