[stravant]

People realized that past phishing attempts were quite badly constructed and a well constructed one is actually really easy to fall for.

[whatamidoingyo]

> People realized that past phishing attempts were quite badly constructed

I seem to recall that the typos and grammar errors were intentional. This gets rid of skeptical people, and you're left with those who are extremely gullible and likely to fall for it.

[ranger207]

This current spate of attacks might be _because_ of that, in fact. Enough people know that phishing attacks are obviously low quality, so when they see a well-constructed message they're less suspicious

[rkomorn]

First time I've heard this but it actually makes an awful lot of sense.

[diggan]

> and a well constructed one is actually really easy to fall for

It really shouldn't though, and something you need to be personally responsible for. If it's still possible in 2025 for you to fall for phishing attempts, you're missing something, something that starts with a p and ends with a assword manager.

[JW_00000]

You must be joking. When I try to log in on Outlook I get redirected to 'microsoftonline.com' (suspicious), when I log in on Wikipedia it sends me to something called 'wikimedia.org' (typo squatter?). How the hell am I supposed to know whether npmjs.help or rustfoundation.dev are _not_ the official domains of those projects?

[oguz-ismail]

Nah, I can manage my own ass words. I wouldn't trust a third party have access to all of them anyway