Our phishing test emails have a special header so they are ignored by the spam filter.
I created an email filter that checks for this header and sends all emails with that header into the spam folder.
This is an effective method that I myself use.
I quit reporting any emails at my job. Reported one from an outside source once, but it wasn’t technically a phish. So I received mandatory online safety courses for “wrongly reporting a phishing scam”. Which was the same courses I was already forced to take a few months prior. I was pissed.
I safely opened an obvious phishing mail to see the tactics they employed - not realizing our company signed up with a company to “test” its employees. I was then required to attend mandatory phishing training - I refused on the grounds that I didn’t fall for the attempt. The “you must attend by” date came and went and I never heard anything more about it from IT. I, too, was pissed.
My favorite thing now is to report mails from the head of IT as phishing emails (e.g., “…we are seeing an increase in phishing attacks around this rando topic. Click here to learn more…”). Test me once, shame on me…
My workplace thanks us for reporting pretty much anything. What your place is doing is making people too scared to report. Smort.
no they only award the people who send in the most phishing emails here. people who don’t open them at all are given no recognition whatsoever.
You deserve a raise.
As IT, I like when i get emails from Co-workers who forward me their spam emails that made it thrugh not just Microsofts detection, but Proofpoints as well and came out “Clean” but is obviously a phishing email. I wish some people would ignore their emails more often…
Just automate it away. My job uses the phishing alarm button for reports, so I can’t totally automate the process, but I’ve set up a rule in Outlook to put all the phishing test emails in a separate folder based on the headers. I can just let them sit there if I want, or just hit the report button without thinking twice about it.
