I’ve been getting a lot of these emails recently . . . at least a few a week.
The email looks like it’s coming from me
The person listed as leaving a voicemail is different each time
The format of the email looks the same in each message
I don’t have a service set up to send voicemail recordings to me, so I was fairly certain it was junk, but I started over-thinking.
Maybe it was a new feature
It looks like it might be from my Microsoft account
Tech is changing so fast, maybe I missed something
But . . .
My company name is run together
My name is not capitalized correctly
I don’t know the person leaving the voicemail
Who leaves a 2+ minute voicemail???
When I hover over the Play button the URL looks odd
So I did some checking.
The final point that tipped the scale was the email header failed
SPF & DMARC Authentication and the DKIM Signature was missing.
OK, that last point is a bit on the techie side, but there were plenty of other red flags. You can learn to spot these types of emails and feel more confident about when it is ok to click and when it is not.
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