Re: Response to phishing e-mails

[Brandon Hume <Brandon.Hume () DAL CA>]

On 28/10/2014 6:32 PM, Nick Semenkovich wrote:
> Why would students care about a school e-mail they may rarely use, 
> perhaps didn't want, and will likely disappear in a few years? Because 
> it impacts some external spam score metric that's of little importance 
> to them?

The phishing exploitation we've had to deal with has had a fairly large 
percentage of the spam going out under the user's own name. So when I 
encounter this particular attitude, I remind them that all that wire 
fraud, the ads for drugs, Russian brides, and so on, has been forever 
immortalized by the Internet.  In their name.  The first thing a 
prospective employer will type into Google.

It comes down to: "Good luck finding a job."