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This "content violation on your X post" phishing email is so common, we get about a dozen of those a week, and had to change the filters many times to catch them (because it's not easy to just detect the letter X and they keep changing the wording).

We also ended up dropping our email security provider because they consistently missed these. We evaluated/trialed almost a dozen different providers and finally found one that did detect every X phishing email! (Check Point fyi, not affiliated)

It was actually embarrassing for most of those security companies because the signs of phishing are very obvious if you look.



It easy to block all phishing email. Just block all email.

It's much much harder to block emails that aren't actually phishing but have components that would flag them anyway.




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