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> "if asked to do a secret task by a suspicious email, DONT do it"

This is not what they teach you in trainings, though. They teach you to get the requestor (or your boss or whoever might be authoritative) on the line and confirm that the email is authentic. I believe a video call qualifies as well.




Depends on who initiates that video call. If the "boss" calls you and says "did you get the email" that is suspect at least if you don't carefully verify the origin of that call. Basically any communication that you don't initiate might be fake.


These people trust caller id, but shouldn't, of course.




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