We all like to think we are smart, independent, in full control of our lives, and there is no way any of us would fall for a financial scam, like those lonely old seniors do, because “that happens to them, not to me, because I am smart.”
But the truth is, even smart people fall for it, people with master degrees, people who work in academia, people running large business… Even I could fall for this.
And how did you learn to recognize it?
Your rule does kind of defeat the purpose. The goal is to see if you can detect phishing attempts “in the wild”. We all want to claim we never fail at detecting stuff, but we do, so training against it is good practice, even if annoying