• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Were you expecting a Google employee to notice the issue, think “Uh oh, I better let Moonrise know about this!” and type out an email for you?

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      3 months ago

      Email templates are ubiquitous and can easily insert names and any other variable.

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      3 months ago

      Do you know that’s trivial to write a marketing email like

      “Dear <name placeholder>…”

      I get that Google is just a startup with limited resources and can’t afford expensive marketing tools, but this is a basic feature offered in every marketing email software, even free ones.

      The reason is that a phishing scammer usually just got a leaked/stolen email list without names, and by stating “dear <name>” they show that it’s not a phishing.

      Once you train users that generic emails with “click here to read the message” are legit, then phishers have an easier life.

      In this specific case they’re just announcing that a Google service that nobody was using has been killed (as is tradition) and they’re going to delete the data, there’s no reason at all to have a “click here to read”.