One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn, or abusing an encoding method that makes it easy to disguise booby-trapped Microsoft Windows files as relatively harmless documents. //

re: “Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life”
This is an old saw from the UN … Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for life.

A coworker fixed it for me: Feed blowfish sushi to spammers as often as necessary.