The company uses a fake Email trainer called Hox Hunter, that sends you trick Emails too see if you are practicing Email safety. It's evil and sends really convincing Emails that are hoaxes that you are supposed to flag.

So I get one the other day that says, I was mentioned as a contributor to a paper submitted by Paul Erdos.

Well, for one thing, Paul Erdos is a fairly obscure, Hungarian mathematician that has almost twice the number of published papers as any other mathematician, doesn't have a home, only owns what he carries in 1 suitcase and 1 tote bag, is a habitual benzadrine (speed) user, and has worked on projects far and wide that you've seen on the news with out compensation or recognition. A brief visit, a few words of advice, and he's gone.

How do I know this? Because I was reading his biography when I got the Email. Not a library book, no cameras.

Out of all the people in the world, why or how did that name come up? I hear Twilight Zone music.....I should have bought a lotto ticket that day.

Were you reading a physical book or online?

You only think there are no cameras. cameras are cheap and easy to install these days. If you have badge access security doors, you have a high probability of being watched.

They knew you were screwing around on company time and wanted to give you a subtle reminder to get back to work.

Yeah yeah we all know it was ten o’clock at night.

Was it from “The Phone Company” ? They know everything.
https://youtu.be/cTPzTG1Lx60

Many times my wife will be having a conversation about something she's interested in buying or trying, and within a few minutes, she has an email advertising that very thing.

In your case, if it was an e-book, that could make sense. Or if you bought it on Amazon using your work computer, it's possible your company scans your usage logs.

Went to the Eye Doc for an exam yesterday, he said your left eye has a slight cataract, I joked we had a Lincoln, he laughed, I laughed, Siri Laughed, face book served me 15 ads for Cataract surgery........

I'm not enough of a techie to explain it well but I think it has to do with "cookies" that leave little internet bread crumbs showing where you were.
In your case since you're using company equipment, they may have a more direct way to tell.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/h...20and%20data%20cache.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
I'm not enough of a techie to explain it well but I think it has to do with "cookies" that leave little internet bread crumbs showing where you were.
In your case since you're using company equipment, they may have a more direct way to tell.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/h...20and%20data%20cache.

Ask Chat Gpt-3

They are everywhere....

Alexa. Echo, Nest, Ring, Cell Phone, Smart TV?

My company uses the same service to train employees to be able to catch suspicious emails.

Some of the emails are pretty good.

JP

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Originally posted by jprebb:
My company uses the same service to train employees to be able to catch suspicious emails.

Some of the emails are pretty good.

JP

Where I work does this too. Some times I click all the links and play along because I know they're fake. Other times I used it against them. I put of some "required mandatory training" for many months, pretending I thought... er I mean, because I thought they were fake links and phishing attempts.

My eldest son works for an org that spy’s on his mouse/cursor activities constantly…

… I suggested he find a new gig.

Also, write/install a script that drives the cursor here and there… click click … (continue weather balloon trajectory)

I don't know how true but was told that when Siri and Alexa are enabled they collect data from your conversations.

Last weekend I purchased a book about beavers (cue the jokes ...) at a local nature preserve. I am not a member and they have no info about me afaik. I paid with a credit card.

Monday I start getting served up beaver videos on YouTube. I've never watched a video or done anything else that would put me on the radar as interested in the topic.

My wife frequently gets served up stuff on Instagram related to recent conversations she's had. I do believe Big Data is monitoring everything despite our best efforts at privacy.

Hmm that explains all the ads for belly dancers and foot models.

If the call is coming from inside the house, DO NOT run into the basement wearing a bra or bikini top. I have it on good authority that's a very quick way to get killed in a grisly, graphic fashion.

I got nailed on one of our faux fishing e-mails. Maintenance was doing work on my floor's emergency exit and it was temporarily out of service. Everyone on my floor receives an e-mail about a map to the temporary emergency exit plan, and myself and about half the floor clicks the link. I forgot that the IT gremlins have offices on the opposite corner of the floor and would know about the emergency exit situation.

Everyone who clicked the link has to talk to their boss and name ends up on a list for a year. How the hell is a phisher in asscrackistan going to know that the emergency exit on my floor is out of service? Talk about pissing away company time on a faux fishing e-mail that has a zero percent chance of occurring in real life.

IT, here
We do phishing tests periodically. Nothing to nefarious, and it just redirects to a vanilla site on email security, and provides us a list of those that clicked the link.
Only around 400 employees here, and probably 60/40 field/office personnel.