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Your Antivirus Never Stood a Chance Against a Blank Email
The scam that drained $2.9 billion from American businesses last year didn't carry a single virus. It carried a subject line and a favor.
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Your Email's Last Name Is a Lie Spammers Already Saw Through
Adding +shop to your Gmail feels clever. A regex deletes it in milliseconds. Here's what actually gives you a kill switch.
Your AI Just Read an Email That Was Written to Lie to It
The 'summarize this thread' button is the friendliest-looking attack surface in your inbox.
The Cancel Button Is Hidden on Purpose, and the FTC Has the Receipts
Your gym, your streaming app, and that meditation subscription you forgot about all share one design goal: make leaving harder than joining.
The 1x1 Pixel That Knows You Opened This at 7:14 a.m.
Half the newsletters in your inbox phone home the second you glance at them. Here's the invisible dot doing it, and the one toggle that blinds it.
The Phishing Email That Came From DocuSign's Own Servers
Your security software gave it a green checkmark. That was the whole point.
The spam in your inbox knows who snitched. You just have to ask it the right way.
Apple's Hide My Email hides your address. A unique alias does something better: it names the company that sold you out.
The $2.99 That Tells You a Delivery Text Is a Scam
Real carriers don't email you a payment link to free your own package. That one request is the whole con.
You're Paying for 12 Subscriptions and Forgot 4 of Them. The Proof Is in Your Inbox.
Your bank statement hides recurring charges behind cryptic merchant names. Your email doesn't bother.
Your Spam Filter Doesn't Read Your Email. It Counts the Tells.
The model isn't a nosy intern skimming your love letters — it's a statistician betting on patterns, and that changes what you should actually worry about.
The Unsubscribe Button That Sells Your Email Instead of Removing It
On a sketchy list, clicking 'unsubscribe' is how you tell a stranger you're real and worth re-selling. There's a safer button hiding in plain sight.
The Fake Invoice That Aced Every Spam Test
It came from a real company, passed every authentication check, and still tried to steal $48,000. Here's the line that gave it away.