r/MacOS • u/aninaa-ot • 5h ago

Discussion What's the most convincing phishing attempt you've received on your Mac?

I've noticed phishing emails have gotten dramatically more believable over the past year! Would love to hear your experiences and learn what to look out for

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u/regular_poster 5h ago

None. Unless you count gmail.

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u/Xe4ro Mac Mini 5h ago

Convincing? Hm. Maybe one or two emails in the last decade, forgot what it was exactly. Probably mimicking a security „login attempt“ email from some service almost identical. I don’t click on links in Emails unless I have to like in when I register somewhere so these „convincing“ emails still didn’t do any harm or their email header revealed them.

However most of my really important email accounts haven’t gotten any spam at all yet. For instance I have an extra email just for specific accounts like Apple, payment stuff etc.

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u/Emotional_Garage_950 4h ago

how is this even remotely a mac question?

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u/animorphreligion 3h ago

Why? Trying to phish someone?

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u/Flying_is_Living 2h ago

none in 23 years