google currents sounds like some sort of phenomenon, like an ocean current that pushes stuff onto the shore where we discover it.

Google Currents

They probably just renamed it to Google Raisins.

So many things have died. GOOGLE KILLS.

I doubt more than 6 people at Google knew what it was.

Yeah actually, any non-spam email should always address you by name and that's a rule. Many services also have this in their e-mail footers "This e-mail is for XXXXX" etc. because a typical mass sent garbage mail won't know your name.

They got the .microsoft TLD a while back specifically for this purpose. Supposedly they want to migrate all their cloud services there, but I learned about that a year ago and I've only seen it in use once since (IIRC on Loop...)

And let's not forget about facebookmail.com, the official mail server for Facebook login notifications since 2004.

The tech is here, the risks are enormous, but the corpos don't care because they don't bear the costs of phishing attacks and governments are too impotent to enforce minimum standards of cybersecurity.

I had to make a police report yesterday, and they wanted me to upload evidence. The (text) message they sent was along the lines of: "A. Last name requests evidence from you. Click here to submit evidence. vp.au/evidence"

But there are so many dodgy similar looking ones that auto complete if you’re typing it.

I went to type in the aka.ms to find a bit locker recovery key. And didn’t realise it autocorrected to something like akam.ms and it was a super sketchy site about bit locker recovery. Luckily I realised straight away even MS wouldn’t host a website like the one I saw.

Link shorteners are the worst.

Only reason I knew that was akamai was their hosting for their previous ISO distro system, it does look phish af.

In fact a lot of things do:

• My bank
• All monthly work pay notifications
• All tax notifications

It's just normal to not include the actual information. But like you say, except sometimes the bank, they don't include links.

Public services here do that too. But they then use a known local service for that.