Phishing truths

A true story…

This is the text of an email message just received:

Dear customer,
Because of the numerous attempts of fraud suffered by our customers in the last 24 hours,
please check your account personal data in the link below.
www.popcredbank.com/blabla…..

Popular Credit Bank

But Popular Credit Bank is not my bank!

Yet they didn’t explicitly say that and they said the truth about the increasing number of recent attempts of fraud…

There’s some truth in a Liar that says “I’m a Liar”….

In the same way, there’s truth in a phishing message that starts by saying “since you are receiving phishing messages…
Sort of a… Self-fulfilling prophecy