Poll of the Day > Is there a point to phishing emails..

(+) Yeah! (+)

.. with no links to click?

Received an online order confirmation email with the usual info I put in, that's no big deal since it's all made up.. it chose a restaurant from the chain on the other side of the country (the internet at work says we're in that state) and all the info of the restaurant is correct.

Whoever or whatever never picked the order up, they chose to pay at the restaurant but I never got a pick up confirmation

What gives?

Link was likely flagged and removed by your provider to prevent customers from clicking on the link, it may actually just be hidden as opposed to removed entirely.

Or it's their first day and the forgot to add the very thing they are being paid to do, onboarding always has issues when training is a fifteen minute mass zoom meeting.

imagine sending out 1 billion phising emails a day

If even one of those pays out, you come out ahead

KodyKeir posted...

Link was likely flagged and removed by your provider to prevent customers from clicking on the link, it may actually just be hidden as opposed to removed entirely.

M'kay, thank you

Is there a chance someone remotely accessed my phones browser, saw that I previously ordered from that restaurant, used my saved info (apart from the card I use to pay) from the website and actually ordered something?

JixHedgehog posted...

M'kay, thank you

Is there a chance someone remotely accessed my phones browser, saw that I previously ordered from that restaurant, used my saved info (apart from the card I use to pay) from the website and actually ordered something?

Probability and possibility; possible yes, probable unlikely.

not a point to fishing, either

Krazy_Kirby posted...

not a point to fishing, either

Except to eat but you probably think that is pointless also.

JixHedgehog posted...

Received an online order confirmation email with the usual info I put in, that's no big deal since it's all made up.. it chose a restaurant from the chain on the other side of the country (the internet at work says we're in that state) and all the info of the restaurant is correct.

your account may have been hacked, and someone ordered themselves food with it? that would be why it's on the other side of the country.

Sahuagin posted...

your account may have been hacked, and someone ordered themselves food with it? that would be why it's on the other side of the country.

Theres no account, I sign in as a guest and use pre-saved info (click the Name bar and select the name from a list) from my phones browser

SunWuKung420 posted...

Except to eat but you probably think that is pointless also.

it is if you prepared it

JixHedgehog posted...

.. with no links to click?

Received an online order confirmation email with the usual info I put in, that's no big deal since it's all made up.. it chose a restaurant from the chain on the other side of the country (the internet at work says we're in that state) and all the info of the restaurant is correct.

Whoever or whatever never picked the order up, they chose to pay at the restaurant but I never got a pick up confirmation

What gives?

Companies require you to enter an email in order to do online ordering. Somebody probably just entered your email randomly to get the food. Somebody in Nigeria ordered Dominoes with my email.

Revelation34 posted...

Companies require you to enter an email in order to do online ordering. Somebody probably just entered your email randomly to get the food. Somebody in Nigeria ordered Dominoes with my email.

They still used my phoney baloney name, surname and telephone number

JixHedgehog posted...

They still used my phoney baloney name, surname and telephone number

It might have been left plaintext in their (the restaurants) database, whatever services they use; that would mean a problem on their end and not yours. Still not great, but that's more a, we built a vital piece of infrastructure that prioritized profit over everything else, problem.